Anas Aremeyaw Anas, a renowned Ghanaian investigative journalist, has been selected the “Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist of the Year” for 2021 by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
He will receive the prize in a yet-to-be-determined event in the United States of America on Saturday, December 4, 2021. The organizers of the event informed him of this in a letter dated October 1, 2021, written to the renowned investigative journalist.
Anas is being honored for his outstanding and ground-breaking achievements in journalism over the years, according to the letter. Anas is known for his dangerous and daring investigative projects. Every year, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) hosts a virtual event to honor legendary Black journalists who have made outstanding contributions to the industry. The event will take place in the United States.
The NABJ Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist of the Year Award is one of the categories of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) event done annually to honour the extraordinary work done by foreign journalists while overcoming tremendous obstacles that contributes to the enrichment, understanding or advancement of people or issues in the African diaspora that exemplifies the spirit of the late Percy Peter Tshidiso Qoboza.
Percy Peter Tshidiso Qoboza, who the award is named after is an influential black South African journalist, author and outspoken critic of the government in South Africa during the early periods of world recognition of the problems evident in the racially divided land.
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