TV Producer/Blogger from Ghana wins award in the USA

Photo Credit: Rexford Nkansah

By Rexford Nkansah

#TheAfricanDream -- a show produced and hosted by Oral Ofori for WPAATV (a public access TV in Wallingford CT, USA) along with shows of other producers from that station was collated and submitted under the name "The Reel: What we did together" to ACM-NE (Alliance for Community Media North east Video Festival) and won Overall Excellence  for Community TV station with a Budget of Under $100,000.

Dr. Bernard Kwabi-Addo of Howard University seeks “ethnic sensitivity” in cancer research

A US based Ghanaian medical research scientist has asked Ghanaians and Africans living on and off the continent to be more aware of their health, asking that they pay more attention to their lifestyles to modulate their risk to cancer because cancer is no more a disease of the West.

Dr. Bernard Kwabi-Addo is a cancer research biologist and an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Howard University in Washington D.C. where he talked about the research he is conducting on cancer risks, particularly in individuals of African ancestry. He also talks about his findings and recommends preventative measures.