Kojo Yankah is the visionary founder of the Pan African Heritage Museum. Mr. Yankah is Journalist, writer, cultural activist, communication specialist and scholar. He has worked in the public service of Ghana as newspaper editor, public relations practitioner, Member of Parliament and Minister of State. He founded the African University College of Communications in 2002, and chaired the Pan African Historical Theatre Festival (PANAFEST) for over a decade. He headed the Board of the Ghana Heritage Conservation Trust for another 10 years before founding the Pan African Heritage Museum in 2010. He is author of 10 books, the latest being “From Jamestown to Jamestown”, which he describes as the ‘journey of the Pan African’. He is widely traveled across all five continents, and loves reading, writing, and visiting theaters and museums for the history, the arts and culture.

About the Pan African Heritage Museum, Kojo Yankah is passionate: “It is time for Africans to write and exhibit our own story, our history, and our proud heritage – it is the only way to build self-confidence in our youth, for the future.”