The New Ghanaian

06/18/2024

🎙️ Really grateful for the team’s persistence in getting me on the pod Building Bytes with Yaw Antwi Owusu, Poga Kuofie & co. 👏🏾

Unpacked a bit of my journey from Google 🇬🇭, YouTube, Meta 🇿🇦 with a sprinkle of Impact Hub Accra, Tayarisha Wits & Now Available Africa ✨

Shout-out to colleagues I interacted with in telecoms: Stephen Essien Tara Squire Jesse Agyepong a decade ago before joining our multi-award-winning MTN Ghana 🥇 last year.

Big mention to tech pillars Dorothy Gordon & Estelle Akofio-Sowah, Eyram Tawia, Busy Internet 🛜 MEST Africa, Vodafone Internet-Cafes in our local digital space way before Snap Inc. & TikTok became a thing 👌🏾
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Listen in 🎙️ “Diagnosing Big Tech’s 🩺 Influence on Innovation in Ghana 🇬🇭 “

Big techs have helped accelerate growth in Ghana’s tech ecosystem in the past with the presence and activation of Google Ghana, YouTube, Facebook and now with the presence of Google AI Office and MTN Ghana.In this episode, we diagnose their impact on innovation in Ghana with Emmanuel A. Gamor curr...

06/15/2024

When you start out in life, you are taught to always compete: first place 🥇 gets you gold.

And for those of us who enjoy winning; you are consistently incentivized to always achieve on personal merit 🚀

When you learn & love to teach, you are humbled by your own capacity. Each successful try by a student/pupil/colleague, no matter how small the reward, feels like a win 🏆

Collaborating consistently for someone else’s success is really hard. And for a few of us, really rewarding 😍🤩

May we make space & find time to ruthlessly collaborate. Together we can go far… 🫂

“The power is yours…” - Captain Planet. 👏🏾

World Economic Forum x The World Bank 🇬🇭

06/05/2024

Go Gators! in Ghana 🇬🇭 👏🏾

Last week, during my very brief and limited Chief Digital Officer delegation (while my fearless leader Dario Bianchi was in Dubai ✈️), my team and I welcomed Computer Engineering Students from University of Florida CISE 🐊 🇺🇸 where I did my undergrad, to the MTN Ghana HQ at Independence Avenue, Accra.

It was a joy to connect with Dr. Sanethia Thomas, PhD (thanks for the intro Dr. Jeremy Waisome, Ph.D.) and shared memories of hooping 🏀 with Cameron 'Scooter' Magruder, Jeremy’s younger brother at the Florida Gym courts back in the day. Time truly flies! We won back to back National Championships in Basketball and Football. What a time to be alive 🤩

Big shout out to David, Estelle, Cynthia, Vanessa, Daniel, Kwame, Gloria for engaging, asking questions and sharing our apps ecosystem in Ghana’s context with fellow Gators 🐊

Fun Fact: UF is looking to create an AI Center on the path of becoming a fully enabled AI University.

MTN beyond Ambition 2025 has an aligned mission. To collaborative next steps 🥂

06/02/2024

Grateful for the opportunity to speak truth to power. As one of my favorite champions of collaboration and leaving earth 🌍 better than we came to meet it admonishes: “The power is yours.” - Captain Planet 🫡

06/02/2024

The New Ghanaian is each & every one of us.

05/17/2024

Congrats 🎈 Stevie Wonder 🇬🇭

05/15/2024

👏🏾 Networking

I stole 30 minutes at the end of the work day to support colleague speakers from MTN Ghana. 🇬🇭

Day Two: The gathering of stakeholders and experts in the industry discussing how to unearth Africa's Fintech and digital economic potential.

Congratulations to Kwame Oppong and the team Bank of Ghana for putting together an informative conference!

05/13/2024

: What would you do if you had front-row seats to the user experience of ~300 million on the African continent? 👏🏾

Read more 🤓 MTN @ 30 | 13 months in… and ~ 300 million touch points.
Unpacking Africa 4.0 - 4th Industrial Revolution Africa | Urithi Labs | Kanea | Eliu Gift Hub

Big Tech to Telco in pursuit of building a "tech telecom giant" 🤔 , my time at MTN 🇬🇭 thus far.

05/09/2024

👏🏾 If you breathe product dev, conduct team management with respectful finesse and enjoy working with a high-paced, high-impact team, join us.

We are Digital Channels Manager & Digital Services Coordinator to join MTN Ghana Digitial Division. Lets Go! 🚀

Channels manager will work with me directly and Services coordinator will work with my wonderful colleague (and songbird 😉) Nsroma Amoateng 😎 🥂

🔗 Link to apply here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3918942780

04/30/2024

Joseph “Sonny” Vanderpuye

“I am deeply grateful to God for blessing me with another year of life. Today, as I celebrate my birthday, my heart also honors the cherished memory of my late sister, Mrs. Mercy Van-Mortagbe. Mercy, we shared more than just a birthday; we shared a lifetime of memories. Continue to rest in the divine peace of our Creator. You are forever in our hearts, especially on this special day.

I also remember my dear friend, the late Nana Adu Gyamfi, whose unwavering support was instrumental when I launched my first publication, The New Ghanaian, back in 2001. Nana, your kindness and mentorship have left an indelible mark on my life. May you continue to find peace in the loving embrace of the Lord.”

- CEO & Founder, The New Ghanaian Newspaper

03/12/2024

Them: “What’s in your bottle?”

Me: “I’m just drinking water, learning to recycle and mind my business ♻️”

It’s been a fast-paced Q1 with the weeks and months whizzing by. Truly grateful for growth & digital apps growth-hacking at work (MTN 🇬🇭); most importantly grateful for the personal little habits of positivity so I build resilience for a stressful year ahead. Looking forward to mastering the art of gathering with people who care, who are intentional and nourish their corner of the world too.

What’s in your bottle of constant nourishment?

📍 Venue: University of Ghana 🇬🇭 , Legon campus

🎭 Event: Studentprenuer Africa Festival

✨ Purpose: Mentorship: Each one, reach one.

Urithi Labs x Unpacking Africa 4.0 - 4th Industrial Revolution Africa x Kanea

02/04/2024

Many moons ago, I moderated a panel on the sidelines of World Economic Forum on Africa in 📍 CapeTown with Heavy Chef on behalf of my good friend Lukhanyo (Thabo Mbeki Foundation). He also introduced me to Fred Roed and the rest, they say is history 🤝

I had a blast returning to Workshop17 at beautiful 🤩 Waterfront 🇿🇦 and grateful for our collective journeys and thankful for all the magic (through the hustle) we get to do on our African continent. 👏🏾

Click here: https://www.heavychef.com/emmanuel-gamor-business-in-africa

Dive in, and enjoy my special recipe, chef. 👨🏾‍🍳

A one-size-fits-all strategy doesn't work in Africa. Emmanuel Gamor, host of the podcast Unpacking Africa and former YouTube Manager for Ghana, unpacks what it takes to do business in Africa sustainably.

01/22/2024

For God and country 🇬🇭 MTN Ghana

12/22/2023

Amazing 🤩 👏🏾

12/20/2023

In my previous life, 12 years ago as the managing editor for The New Ghanaian newspaper 📰, I flew to Washington D.C. ✈️ to cover a young phenom’s first visit to the States 🇺🇸

Sarkodie, the burgeoning leader of 🎼 Azonto and 🎼 Hip-life rap music from Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭 was performing and it was a pleasure 📸 covering his performance. Connecting for the first time with DJ Mensah through his older brother Rob Definitions establishing a decade-long friendship and admiration of Michael Owusu aka Land Lord/King Sark’s successful career.

The hosted by TheMix DesignHub & curated by Eagle Plug Entertainment management has been a pleasant reminder of consistent excellence and Ghana 🇬🇭 to the World 🌍 in music, art & culture.

Well done & big 👏🏾 Mike, as an independent artist you exemplify 👌🏾 Sarkcess x Urithi Labs

12/15/2023

Appreciative

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Dr. Maya Angelou

This MTN Ghana end of year tradition to hold space & acknowledge tenured colleagues is awesome. Learning something every day. What are you doing today? Sir. Daniel & Yaw, Ayekoo 🙏🏾

12/01/2023

It’s a joy to try and bring MTN Ghana closer to over 1.8 million + Ghanaians 📱 every day with these dedicated (sometimes to a fault 😅), brave, brilliantly ambitious and competent managers & colleagues David Narh, Ann Fesu, PMP®, Vanessa O'Hara Aidoo & Kwame Adu Manu cc: Gloria Senam A. Afanyibo
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👏🏾 a special thank you to the uber connected Isaac Newton for the invite to celebrate my tribe & the indefatigable Akosua Osei 🌸 for curating the event | Honorable mention Jesse Agyepong
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Our Future of Work is:

💡 Digital

💡 Flexible

💡 Empathetic

💡 Collaborative

💡 Makes space for Dreams 🙏🏾

🇬🇭 👏🏾 ✨

11/23/2023

Thank you 🙏🏾 Ashesi University 📍

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have faith in people, that they're basically good and smart -- and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. Tools are just tools. They either work, or they don't work.” - Steve Jobs

11/08/2023

🎤 Grateful for an opportunity to give back 📍 Ashesi University Campus Berekusu, Ghana 🇬🇭 . 👏🏾 WhatAreYouDoingFriday

“Digitalization as a tool for Organizational Development: Lessons from Industry” - Emmanuel Agbeko Gamor

10/14/2023

🤩 On the back of Ghana 🇬🇭 x South Africa 🇿🇦 90-days visa free agreement announcememt ✈️

Really grateful for the warm welcome and hospitality at the MTN South Africa 🇿🇦 office & with the team. What are you doing internationally?

Special shout-out to my in-office hosts Ebrahim x Jon x Rishal 🤝🏾

My out-of-office hosts 😇 Londiwe x Shalamar x Geoff x Kavish 😎

Prison Break avengers 🥷 Itu x Koketso x Aerona x Faria x Alina x Michael x Nadine x Irshaad x Enzo 🙏🏾

Grateful my adopted & third home country is exemplifying better ease of travel 🧳 More to do yet. 🚀

10/01/2023

Celebrating 🥳 both my parents Emmanuel Francois Gamor and Muriel Vanderpuye’s birthdays in September helped me reflect on the memorials we had 2023, this year:

Ancestral: Sawyerr x Gamor 💐

Generations. Honoring my past, presently grateful for my future.

09/15/2023

Grateful 👏🏾

I get to Bamba with the MTN Ghana big CPG boys my big brothers William Tetteh & Jonas Nanzoninge at the Project Management Institute Conference in Nairobi 🇰🇪

The joy and comraderie I had discovered with these two pillars in our company sparks joy for me!

As well as meeting in person for the first time Ayanda More x Joanna Baidu 🤝🏾

To more doings together, in PMI and across our continent and beyond ✈️

08/11/2023

Finally 🏆 Winners

In 🇬🇭 your significant Alma mater is your high school (in most of our cases, boarding school) and the lifelong bonds we formed as teenagers.

Last week Friday on Founders’ Day Holiday 2023, while celebrating our 20th Anniversary on the 10th year of organizing BOBA our ‘03 group & team won this year’s game to set off our celebrations. #2003

In Lumen Tuo Videmus Lumen! 👏🏾

08/08/2023

“I don’t just build apps, I build up people.” - Me

Thanks Hello UX x UXGH for the intro to a dope community 🔥

If not us, then who? www.TheNewGhanaian.com

07/31/2023

“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.” ~ Steve Jobs

🙏🏾 Thanks PMI - Ghana Chapter x MTN Ghana for the opportunity and reminder to share authentically, collaborate ruthlessly & change our part of the world by solving people problems. Project Management Institute x MTN

07/07/2023

✨ To the ever-achieving MTN Ghana leadership that keeps pushing the bar incredibly high.

🥂 To the department leads and colleagues across the many divisions that make the MTN 🇬🇭 commercial magic happen.

🤝🏾 to my team leads on the awesome work done, and the amazing work we are embarking on doing together.

Thank you 🙏🏾 www.TheNewGhanaian.com

07/04/2023

Day 1 of our Commercial Leadership Forum in CapeTown 🇿🇦 has been informative & a blast. Besides the commercial brilliant staff across the continent; it is the networking, for me 🥂

Ready. Set. Do! MTN Ghana

02/27/2023

Meet our , an experienced entrepreneur and the founder of Urithi Labs.
Don't miss out on his upcoming event, "Socials 4 Professionals," taking place this weekend.
Register for access now at egtks.com/e/36831.

02/18/2023

This is my “I did it, year.” And because I believe strongly in let’s get at it together 🙌🏾 🇬🇭 🎁 Eliu Gift Hub | www.TheNewGhanaian.com

01/29/2023

Socials 4 Professionals 0-100 🚀 Workshop

I’m hosting these on weekends in Accra 🇬🇭 to bring folks up to speed in light of Chat GPT & Metaverse. Virtual engagements & discount codes are available too. Class numbers don’t exceed 10 per session. Email 📧 [email protected] for further inquiries

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