Fritz Baffour

Hon
Fritz
Baffour
Member of the Ghana Parliament
for Ablekuma South
Assumed office
Jan 2009
Preceded by Theresa Amerley Tagoe
Majority 5,283
Minister for Information
Assumed office
Jan 2012
President John Atta Mills
Preceded by John Tia
Personal details
Born (1952-03-11) 11 March 1952
Accra, Ghana
Nationality Ghanaian
Relations R. P. Baffour
Profession Journalist, Media consultant

Fritz Baffour (born 11 March 1952) is a Ghanaian journalist, politician and communications consultant. He is the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South constituency in the Parliament of Ghana and the Minister for Information of Ghana. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress in Ghana.

Early life and education

Baffour was born in Accra, the capital of Ghana. His father was R. P. Baffour, an academician and one of the first Ghanaian mechanical engineers as well as the first Ghanaian Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His mother was a midwife. His secondary education was at the Prempeh College and the Technology Secondary School, both in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He obtained his GCE Ordinary Level certificate in 1968. His sixth form education was at the City of Bath College in Avon in the United Kingdom between 1972 and 1974, completing with the GCE Advanced Level certificate. Baffour also attended the Bristol Polytechnic between 1974 and 1976. Fritz Baffour did a Masters degree in Communication Studies from the Leicester University between 2007 and 2012.

Career

Baffour worked as a journalist. He was a producer with Ghana Television, the TV channel of the state owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation as a producer and director. He has also worked with Liberian Television, Nigerian Television, Tyne Tees TV UK, Diverse Production in UK and Back to Back Productions USA. He was also a media consultant to the government of Jerry Rawlings.

Politics

Baffour was involved with the National Democratic Congress from its inception in 1991. He became a member of parliament in January 2009 after winning the Ablekuma South seat in the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 2008. He was appointed Minister for information by President John Atta Mills in 2012.

See also

References

    Parliament of Ghana
    Preceded by
    Theresa Tagoe
    Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South
    2009 present
    Incumbent
    Political offices
    Preceded by
    John Tia
    Minister for Information
    2012 present
    Incumbent


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