Kweku Baako to launch his memoir “by the end of 2018”

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako

The Editor-in -Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, has disclosed he will launch his memoir “by the end of 2018.” He disclosed this to Manasseh Azure Awuni after Newsfile on Saturday.

Manasseh had promised his Facebook followers last Thursday that he would get Mr. Kweku Baako to confirm when his much-awaited memoir would be launched.

“I’m on it. It’s work in progress,” he told Manasseh. Manasseh then asked for a specific time frame for the launch.

“We’re are in 2017, right? I will launch it by the end of next year,” he said.

Mr. Baako is one of Ghana’s most experienced and respected journalists. He has also mentored and groomed Ghana’s foremost investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who is a two-time Ghana Journalist of the Year.

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako was born on July 7, 1954, and started his journalism career in 1979. Among his career highlights are:

Editor of the Frontline Message from 1979 to 1981

Research Assistant of the Free Press from 1984 to 1986

Editor of the Sports Concorde from 1989 to 1991

Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Guide from 1995 to 1998

Editor-in-Chief of the Crusading Guide from 1998 to 2009 and

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide from 2009 to date.

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako was an activist against military regimes and paid the price for it. He spent two separate jail terms without trial, a 24-month and a seven-month sentence, and was later sentenced to a 30-day jail term in 1998 for contempt of court.

“The third one was the most painful one.  I was jailed by a court of competent jurisdiction. I will talk about it later,” Mr. Baako said when he delivered the 2017 edition of the Kronti ne Akwamu lecture series organised by the Ghanaian governance think tank Centre for Democratic Governance (CDD).

In 1999, Mr. Baako was adjudged the journalist of the year by the Ghana Journalists’ Association. He was awarded a Member of the Order of the Volta, one of the highest state honours in Ghana, in 2008.

The 63-year old journalist is a son of a former Minister of Information in Kwame Nkrumah’s government. He is widely respected for his analytical skills and ability to back his arguments with documents, both current and historical. He disclosed at the lecture that he benefitted from the record keeping habit of his father.

His memoir is expected to catalogue his experiences with the military and regimes from Ghana’s first government to date.