Kojo Yankson is a broadcast journalist, an author, a motivational speaker, and the host of the Super Morning Show on Joy 99.7FM. Since he took over the show in April 2014, Kojo has marked up several milestones.<\/p>\n
In addition to winning CIMG Radio Programme of the Year in his first year at the helm of the Show, Kojo was also the first journalist to venture into Nigeria at a time when they were battling an Ebola outbreak, reporting from the nation\u2019s isolation centres, and following the trail of the virus across the country to Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n
Known on air as The Morning Man, Kojo Yankson has crafted a unique magazine show that commands the attention of 6 million Ghanaians every morning, with his unique blend of witty commentary, insightful analysis, hard-hitting interviews, and conscience-pricking social dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n Anything can happen when the Morning Man is in the hot seat. Scandals have been exposed, families have been reunited, lives have been saved, funds have been raised, and \u2013 on one particularly unfortunate occasion \u2013 a woman has died from Cholera, all live on the show that runs five days a week, from Monday to Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n Why you should \u00a0listen<\/b><\/p>\n I have a theory. It might shock you. I believe our problems as a people might be down to genetics. Am I racist? Or am I right? Come, listen, and make up your own mind. Either way, it\u2019s time we started to rethink our way of life on a very fundamental level, don\u2019t you agree?<\/span><\/p>\n Quote from Kojo<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cWe have not always been blessed with great leaders, but the real problem is that we have been cursed with excellent followers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n About TEDxAccra<\/strong><\/p>\n TEDxAccra is annual event, where thinkers and doers of our community are gathered to create and share ideas. This year\u2019s TEDx will come off from\u00a0April 19\u00a0to 23, 2016.<\/p>\n The event\u00a0seeks to develop and leverage the TED experience at a community level, bring together innovative thinkers to connect and discuss great ideas.<\/p>\n At TEDxAccra, participants will take part in a TED-like experience that will ultimately equip and inspire them into boundless possibilities.<\/p>\n The concept is to reflect ideas and inspire thinking of a new generation of African thinkers and leaders, presenting to an audience committed to engaging and reengaging in an active and meaningful manner with the continent.<\/p>\n \u2013<\/p>\n Source: TEDxAccra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kojo Yankson is a broadcast journalist, an author, a motivational speaker, and the host of the Super Morning Show on Joy 99.7FM. Since he took over the show in April 2014, Kojo has marked up several milestones. In addition to winning CIMG Radio Programme of the Year in his first year at the helm of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}