Journalism

A decade of reporting from inside the rooms where decisions are made.

Presidential coverage. Governance investigations. Climate and public health reporting. Award-winning features written for readers who deserve more than the press release.

Public Affairs · Press ConferenceReporting from the front lines of national discourse — asking questions that mattered and bringing critical public-interest stories to citizens.
Jubilee House · AccraServing as a Presidential Correspondent — covering governance, leadership, policy, and national development.

Professional Highlight

Presidential Correspondent — reporting from the highest levels of government.

For years Victor covered the Presidency of Ghana — cabinet announcements, foreign visits, parliamentary addresses and the policy decisions that travel a long distance from the briefing room to the citizen.

That assignment shaped his standard for the work: power must be questioned plainly, and the public must always be the audience the questions are written for.

  • 2018

    Presidential Coverage

    Inside the Last Cabinet: A Presidential Correspondent's Notebook

    Daily Graphic

    A close-quarters account of the final weeks of an administration — the late-night briefings, the unrecorded confessions, the policy decisions that did not survive their own announcement.

  • 2019

    Governance

    When Aid Becomes Architecture: Ghana's Donor Dilemma

    Africa Watch

    Investigative reporting on how decades of aid have quietly reshaped the country's policy machinery — and what is now owed back to the citizens those policies are meant to serve.

  • 2020

    Climate & Public Affairs

    The Volta Is Rising: Climate Displacement on Ghana's Eastern Edge

    Award-winning feature

    A months-long field investigation into communities being slowly erased by rising waters — and the public health emergency unfolding in their wake. Awarded by the Ghana Journalists Association.

  • 2023

    Public Affairs

    The Long Walk to Trillium: Foreign-Trained Nurses in Ontario

    The Globe & Mail (Op-Ed)

    An argument for credentialing reform, written from inside a system that needs Victor as much as he needed Canada — and the moral cost of pretending otherwise.

  • 2017

    Governance

    Holding Power Accountable: A Reporter's Code

    Joy News

    On the discipline of asking the next question, even when the room would prefer a comfortable answer. Notes from a decade in the press corps.

  • 2024

    Climate & Public Affairs

    Health on a Warming Continent

    Lancet Africa Commentary

    Reframing climate change as the single largest public-health crisis Africa will face this century — and what frontline workers, ministers, and donors must agree to next.

Recognition

Honoured by the colleagues whose judgement matters most.

  • Ghana Journalists Association — Feature of the Year
  • Presidential Press Corps — Coverage Excellence
  • Climate Reporting Fellowship — West Africa Cohort
  • Canadian Newcomer Magazine — Voice of the Year (Nominee)

Stay in the conversation

New books, dispatches and speaking dates — sent occasionally.

Contact

contact@victorkwawukume.com

Toronto, Canada / Accra, Ghana

© 2026 Victor Kwawukume. All rights reserved.

From Accra's corridors of power to Canada's frontline wards.