| Dan Kwaku Yeboah | |
| Birth Date: | 1978 9, df=yes |
Dan Kwaku Yeboah is a Ghanaian broadcast journalist and former spokesperson for the Ghana Football Association during the period of the FIFA Normalisation Committee.[1] [2] He is also the Head of Sports for Despite Media Group who owns Ghanaian media giants Peace FM.[3]
During his tenure as the spokesperson of the Ghana Football Association during the era of the FIFA Normalisation Committee he developed a document dubbed corporate communications policy for the football association which has been adopted by the association for its communications.[4] He was also once the communications director of All Blacks F.C. He resigned as spokesperson of the Ghana Football Association Normalisation Committee in September 2019.[5]
In March 2019, he was adjudged the Most Innovative Sports Presenter of the year at an event held at the International Conference Center by Pan African Awards held in Accra.[6] Meanwhile, in November 2019 the Ghana Journalists Association honoured him with a Special Award for his meritorious service to sports journalism in the West African country.[7] [8] In October 2018 he was nominated for the Sports Journalist of the Year award by the Ghana Journalists Association and won the award.[9] [10] He is also a previous winner of the Lade Wosornu Prize for Literature.[11] He has won multiple awards as the Ghanaian commentator of the year after winning the award three times in a row.
In July 2018 the renowned broadcaster was appointed spokesperson for the FIFA/CAF liaison team which was mandated to manage football in Ghana following the dissolution of the Ghana Football Association Executive Committee following the Anas Aremeyaw expose.[12] After the end of the Liaison Team era he was appointed as the spokesperson for the FIFA Normalisation Committee.[13] In summer of 2019 he was named the spokesperson for a 5-member Management Committee which was tasked to steer Black Stars during their campaign in the 2019 AFCON tournament.[14] [15] In September 2019 he resigned from his position as the spokesperson of the Normalisation Committee after citing personal reasons for his resignation.[16] During 2017 television show Kwaku Yeboah slammed the Confederation of Africa Football for what he described as a populist decision when the continent's football governing body moved the African Cup of Nations from January to June.[17]
Following the death of Ghanaian coach Emmanuel Kwasi Afranie in 2016 Kwaku Yeboah authored and launched a book titled: Coachhene, Football Gift to Mother Ghana.[18] He then played an influential role to set up a foundation to serve the memory of the late Ghanaian coach.[19] The foundation makes donations to the various hospitals in Ghana. Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo commended Kwaku Yeboah for his contribution to sports development during his victory speech after winning the 2016 General Elections in Ghana.[20] [21] He also organised and raised the sum of GHS300,000 an equivalent of US$52,000 to support the Ghana national team squad of 1965 who won the 1965 AFCON tournament.
In October 2020 he was named as a member of the Local Organising Committee for the 2023 African Games. Ghana President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo inaugurated the members of the LOC in that same month.[22] [23]