What's On Ghana magazine

"It’s 7pm on a Friday night and while most of us are winding down for the weekend Kanya King, the dynamic founder of the Music Of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards has hours of work ahead of her. But hers is no average nine-to-five. In the weeks running up to the prestigious annual affair, the half-Irish, half-Ghanaian media mogul is juggling calls from the press, the public, artist liaison and show sponsors all at the same limited time. Yet after eleven years of organising the hottest event on the British music calendar King still has a palpable passion for her job."

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"When it comes to being a shrewd businesswoman, Frances Williams is right up there. The award-winning mother of two has developed an innovative solution to Africa's human resource needs by providing short-term interim managers from the UK for cash-strapped small and medium enterprises on the continent. She's also recently started another business Working Plus and is soon to launch a new website Reconnect Africa. So, what does it take to make it in a man's world?”

"Unless you've been stranded on a desert island over the last year you probably think you've heard all there is to know about Sway, the award-winning rapper who defied the odds to nab the Best Hip-Hop gong at this year's MOBOs. Well think again, because the Hornsey-bred MC has only just begun in his quest to make a mark on the notoriously fickle music industry."

Taken from the December 2005 issue

"Intelligent, articulate and graceful, Naana Agyei-Ampadu, the reigning Miss Ghana UK is the anti-beauty queen.”I know I can't eradicate AIDS or put an end to child poverty," she concedes, alluding to the customary response given by beauty pageant contestants the world over. "But I can utilise the exposure that I'm getting to highlight certain things that may otherwise be ignored." Agyei-Ampadu is anything but the Ghanaian equivalent of a dumb blonde. The ebullient 22-year-old law graduate and drama student is determined to use her newfound status to make a change."