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Oral Ofori
Oral Kwame Ofori, professionally known as Oral Ofori, is a Ghanaian-American award-winning digital media producer, blogger, freelance journalist, entrepreneur, and writer. Born in Tema, he is also the founder of the US-based communication consultancy TheAfricanDream LLC. In February 2018, Ofori took on a language interpretation job as a level II interpreter of the Twi and Ga languages with the Fairfax County Public Schools system. In December 2021, Mr. Ofori started work with the Embassy of Ghana, Washington, D.C., as Head of the Customer Relations Office under Ambassador Alima Mahama. In February 2024, Mr Ofori’s firm, TheAfricanDream LLC, partnered with the Washington DC government in the United States to provide media for the event dubbed Africa on the Avenue to support local businesses.
Early life, career and education
Born to Ghanaian parents in Tema, Oral Ofori graduated from Chemu Senior High School in 1998 and completed journalism studies at the London School of Journalism in 2006. The following year, he began an internship with the Voice of America (VOA) in Washington, D.C., as a radio news reporter and contributor.
Ofori is also a columnist for Ghanaian news websites such as GhanaWeb, ModernGhana, and the US-based Afrikan Post newspaper. He has also contributed to publications including the Los Angeles Sentinel, Swedish news magazine Beyond Borders, the Dallas Weekly, the North Dallas Gazette, and the Baltimore Times.
Since 2014, Ofori has hosted and produced the #TheAfricanDream show, which aired on Fairfax, Virginia, on public-access television channel 30.
Reporting and interviews
Ofori formally started a blog in 2011 and has since then written about or interviewed persons including Mayor Peter Bossman, scientist and fibre optics innovator Dr. Thomas Mensah, Anthony K. Wutoh; Howard University Provost and Chief Academic Officer, and musician and artist Koby Maxwell.
Some of his other interview subjects have been Deborah Addo of INOVA Hospitals in the US, Grammy-nominated musician and activist Rocky Dawuni, sportscaster Sonny Young of Voice Of America, historic Quander family member Rohulamin Quander, Hege Hertzberg, former Ambassador of Norway to Ghana, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso and Liberia, and among others Howard University Professor Michael C. Campbell.