Jefferson Kwamina Sackey is a multiple award-winning Ghanaian journalist, Media Consultant, Film Maker, and PR Strategist. He is known for his quality presentation skills and command over international issues. He was the Media Relations Officer to the current President of GhanaNana Akufo-Addo while he served as Ghana's Foreign Minister and also serves as his personal archivist. He worked as a news presenter of the Accra-based radio station Joy FM of the Multimedia Group Limited.
Early Life and career
Sackey was born at Senya Beraku in the Awutu Senya District of Ghana but moved to Accra at a very tender age with his parents. He attended the Riis Memorial School for his Elementary and Junior High School Education. Jefferson's media talent was uncovered at a very tender age of 9, where he was featured on the popular kids programmes ‘Childrens Own’ and ‘By the Fire Side’ on Ghana Television. While in Secondary school, he hosted the Teenage magazine programme, ‘Teen Beat’ in the late nineties. In 1994, he continued his high school education at one of Ghana's prestigious high schools, Accra High School. He later got enrolled at the Ghana Institute of Journalism where he offered Journalism and the Deutsche Welle TV Training Institute in Berlin, Germany. Sackey started Journalism in 2005 with Television Africa as a lead News Anchor. He later hosted his own global affairs show "JS International Assignment" which later became "Jefferson Sackey Reports", a first-class news documentary production going beyond the headlines to tell stories in-depth and from many points of view. The show which started on TV Africa, got syndicated on Joy News, Ghana and other global news channels including Afroglobal Television in Canada. He served as the Public Relation Officer for Ghana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2007 working closely with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, then the Foreign Minister under the JA Kufuor administration. During the 2007 NPP Primaries, Jefferson released the documentary, "Pushing the Ghanaian and African Agenda" a feature that highlights the diplomatic and international strength of the then candidate Nana Akuffo-Addo. Jefferson has also worked and reported for global news firms such as CNN International as contributor of "World View" and Deutsche Welle Television as West African Correspondent and contributor of its international affairs programme "Quadriga". Ghana's media giant, the Multimedia Group in 2010, signed Jefferson on as its prime News Anchor for the "Midday News" and Assisting News Editor until he relocated to Canada in 2015 where he was appointed Vice President of Afroglobal Television, Canada's.
Media Coverage
The Ivorian political crisis, Abidjan 2011� Earthquake in Haiti, Paut au Prince, February 2010 Inauguration of President Obama, Washington DC, 2009 The Charles Taylor trial, ICC, the Hague, 2008� The Sudanese crises, Darfur, 2007� Israeli Lebanese conflict, Beirut. 2006� Terrorist attacks in London, 2005, UK� Famine in Niger and Somalia. 2004 and 2011 The Liberian crises, 2003
Family
Sackey is one of ten siblings. His father, George Paa Kofi Sackey, works as an Accountant and his mother Emma Nana Aba Meyar worked as a Trader. Jefferson is married to Elizabeth Jackson Sackey and they have two children who are based in Canada.
Conferences
UN General Assembly, UN Headquarters, New York City. 2006, 2007and 2010
