Straight Out of Ghana: A Still Beaming Knight-Bagehot Fellow
Emmanuel Dogbevi was part of the 2013-14 group.
This year’s Knight-Bagehot Fellows at Columbia University are, per usual, an impressive group. They include Bloomberg’s Justin Doom, the LA Times’ Tiffany Hsu and Fortune magazine’s Jeff Roberts.
A few years ago, it was the honor of Ghanaian business journalist Emmanuel Dogbevi to be among this elite class. In a piece published this week on the website that he founded, ghanabusinessnews.com, Dogbevi calls the 2013-14 Fellowship the pinnacle of his 25-year career. And what a career!
From the top of colleague Emmanuel Odonkor’s write-up:
What would be your reaction if you were told that a middle school graduate whose education had been truncated would one day become a journalist whose exploits would add to Ghana’s pride?
The career of this globally recognized journalist has been a long, winding one, but he became the first Ghanaian to be awarded the most sought after journalism fellowship in the world, the Knight Bagehot (pronounced baje-t) Fellowship...
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