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Kwaku Krobea Asante is a Ghanaian journalist, media trainer, and a researcher[1] with interests in good governance, freedom of expression, fact-checking, and access to information laws in Africa.[2][3][4] He manages the fact-checking projects at the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).[5][6]
Early life and education
editKwaku Krobea Asante was born in Kumasi, Ghana's Ashanti Region, where he had his early education. He completed Opoku Ware Senior High School. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science, as well as a Master's degree in Communication Studies, all from the University of Ghana.[7]
Career
editKwaku Krobea Asante currently manages the Independent Journalism Project at the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).[8] This project includes The Fourth Estate, which focuses on investigative reporting, and he serves as the Lead for Fact-Check Ghana, which works to counter information disorder.[9]
In his role at the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), he has led several projects.[10] He coordinated the communication and public outreach for the European Union-funded Africa We Want Project.[11]
Previously, he also led a media ethics project that tracked professional standards among 26 news outlets during Ghana's 2020 elections. Additionally, he is the communications lead for the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).[12][13]
Fact-Check Ghana
editAsante is the team lead for Fact-Check Ghana a project of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).[14] For Ghana's 2024 general election, he led the establishment of the Ghana Fact-checking Coalition and set up the first media situation room to track and counter mis/disinformation during the election.[15][16]
Some notable journalistic works and research
editNational Service Scheme (NSS) ghost names scandal
editKwaku and Seth Bokpe looked into the complex, multi-year fraud at the National Service Secretariat where some appointed public officials manipulated the authority's internal digital systems to insert thousands of non-existent people onto the national service payroll.[17] [18][19] This scandal led to the uncovering of over 81,000 suspected ghost names that prompted a presidential order for a formal investigation into the former officials overseeing the Ghana National Service Scheme.[20][21][22]
Dangerous Endorsements
editKwaku's investigation, titled Dangerous Endorsements was conducted to expose the negligence of media houses regarding public health. He and his colleague Adwoa Adobea-Owusu created a fake herbal concoction, "Macofa Herbal Mixture" (coined from Malt, Coca-Cola, and Fanta), which had no FDA approval. They successfully paid eight major media platforms across the country including TV and radio stations and the state owned newspaper the Daily Graphic to advertise the non-existent medicine. The primary method used was the Live Presenter Mention (LPM), where hosts spontaneously endorsed the product as a cure for serious ailments like infertility and sexual impotence, a practice explicitly banned by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) for medicinal products.[23][24][25]
Achievement of Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traore: Facts vs Myths
editKwaku's fact-check examined a widespread social media claims about Burkina Faso's military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, found that most reported achievements were either false or misleading. Specifically, claims that Traoré built a Central Bank, gave university students a 10,000 CFA salary, provided free basic education, or introduced mandatory robotics in basic schools were all debunked. Furthermore, the popular claims that he initiated free maternal health care or the subsidized “One Student, One Laptop” program were found to be misleading, as these policies were already in place years before his 2022 coup. However, the investigation did verify two concrete actions, Traoré's government handed over fifteen mobile health clinics for use in remote areas, and he repealed a decree passed by the previous junta that had increased the salaries of state ministers, effectively cutting their pay.[26]
Influence and Deception: How pro-NPP firm flaunting UK connection produced polls favouring Bawumia
editHis fact-check report exposed the political ties and deceptive practices of Outcomes International, a research firm that published polls widely reported in the media showing Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia ahead in the 2024 presidential race. The firm, which claimed a United Kingdom connection, was found to have close links to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP): its beneficiary owners and associates are key NPP supporters, including a full-time government employee and the Offinso North District Director of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) who acted as its spokesperson. Furthermore, the company lacked transparency, providing multiple false physical locations in Accra, and its website offered no information on its team, funding, or methodology. The research itself was questioned by academics, who cited its inadequate, non-transparent sampling methods and results that were statistically inconsistent with Ghana's voter population. This lack of credibility and overt political connection suggested the polls were intended as propaganda rather than genuine scientific research.[27]
Research
editHere are the research papers he co-authored:
- The different worlds of Google – A comparison of search results on conspiracy theories in 12 countries[28]
- Cross-channel message consistency in herbal medicine advertising: A comparative analysis of packaging information and radio presenter mentions[29][30]
- Pay or be denied: The impact of fees and charges on journalists’ perception of the effectiveness of Ghana’s Right to Information Law[31]
Awards and recognition
editReferences
edit- ↑ "Ghana: Journalists Urged to Use RTI Law Alongside Whistle Blowers' Law". Ghanaian Times. 2025-11-11. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ Tenkoramaa, Adwoa (2024-02-26). "NMC should've been involved in closure of 4 Bawku radio stations - MFWA". Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ "A journalist cannot remain neutral when calling out the powerful over wrongdoing — Kwaku Krobea Asante". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ Danso, Adwoa Serwaa (2023-04-21). "Improve Appalling Working Conditions of Journalists - MFWA". Opemsuo 104.7. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ "Kwaku Krobea Asante, Author at Poynter". Poynter. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ "Kwaku Krobea Asante - Speaker Profile". #GIJC25. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ "Kwaku Krobea Asante". Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ "Kwaku Krobea Asante: Kasoa Murder - The media sector reform that is long overdue - MyJoyOnline". Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ Lonta, Doris (2024-05-30). "Elections 2024: MFWA trains journalists on peace and conflict reporting". Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ Support, Jnews (2022-02-13). "MFWA condemns arrest of Accra FM journalist". Happy Ghana. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ "End Evaluation of ActionAid's Africa We Want Project" (PDF).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Times, Ghanaian (2024-11-20). "MFWA expresses worry about gendered, sexualised misinformation". Ghanaian Times. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ "AIJC Awards finalists chosen from among incredibly strong entries in 2024 - AIJC". 2024-10-22. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ Newsroom (2024-11-05). "African leaders urged to unite in fight against digital disinformation - abcnewsgh". Retrieved 2025-12-08.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ Tzabiras, Marianna (2024-11-12). "Fact-checking coalition set up ahead of Ghana elections". IFEX. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ Newsroom (2024-11-05). "Fact-Check Ghana calls for nuance tactics in battling misinformation and disinformation - abcnewsgh". Retrieved 2025-12-08.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ "NSA Ghost names scandal: Single name repeated 226 times – The Fourth Estate". 2025-02-17. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ "Eight suspects in NSS scandal seek plea bargains, offer to testify – Attorney General reveals - MyJoyOnline". Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ Asante, Seth J. Bokpe, Kwaku Krobea (2025-02-13). "NSS Scandal: The inside story". The Fourth Estate. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "The Fourth Estate exposes key NSA figures in ghost names scandal". 2025-02-17. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ "The Fourth Estate exposes key NSA figures in ghost names scandal". 2025-02-17. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ Asante, Seth J. Bokpe, Kwaku Krobea (2025-02-13). "NSS Scandal: The inside story". The Fourth Estate. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Times, Ghanaian (2023-09-28). "Measures to ensure public health safety: FDA to clamp down on media… over promotion of unapproved medicines". Ghanaian Times. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ "Radio show hosts' presentation of herbal medicine likely to be deceptive - Research - MyJoyOnline". Retrieved 2025-12-06.
- ↑ Adobea-Owusu, Kwaku Krobea Asante, Adwoa (2023-09-14). "Dangerous endorsements: Exposé on herbal medicine advertising in Ghana". The Fourth Estate. Retrieved 2025-12-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Asante, Kwaku Krobea (2025-05-30). "Achievement of Burkina Faso's Captain Ibrahim Traore: Facts vs Myths". Fact Check Ghana. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ Asante, Kwaku Krobea (2024-11-25). "Influence and Deception: How pro-NPP firm flaunting UK connection produced polls favouring Bawumia". Fact Check Ghana. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ "The different worlds of Google – A comparison of search results on conspiracy theories in 12 countries". Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 30 (6).
- ↑ "Cross-channel message consistency in herbal medicine advertising: A comparative analysis of packaging information and radio presenter mentions". International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing.
- ↑ Yeboah-Banin, Abena Animwaa; Asante, Kwaku Krobea (2020-03-31). "Cross-channel message consistency in herbal medicine advertising: A comparative analysis of packaging information and radio presenter mentions". International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing. 14 (1): 113–136. doi:10.1108/IJPHM-02-2019-0004. ISSN 1750-6123.
- ↑ AfricLaw (2024-06-26). "Pay or be denied: The impact of fees and charges on journalists' perception of the effectiveness of Ghana's Right to Information Law". AfricLaw. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ Development, Centre for Journalism Innovation and (2025). "PRESS RELEASE: 13 finalists emerge for CJID Excellence in Journalism Awards". CJID.
- ↑ "KAS MEDIA AFRICA AWARD FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF THE 2024 CONTEST". Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa. 2024-02-07. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ↑ Gozo, Paul (2022-11-13). "The Fourth Estate's Seth Bokpe wins best GJA reporter for Democracy and Good Governance". The Fourth Estate. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
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