Renowned Ghanaian journalist and former Editor of The Ghanaian Times, Ajoa Yeboah-Afari, has been honoured at the 2025 World Press Freedom Day Honours Night held last Friday in Accra.The ceremony, organised by the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), as part of the global commem­oration of World Press Freedom Day, celebrated individuals whose contributions had significantly ad­vanced media freedom, integrity, and independence in Ghana and beyond.Honoured together with 23 others, Ms Ye­boah-Afari, received the recognition for her lifelong dedication to journalistic excellence and her fearless advocacy for press freedom during some of Ghana's most repressive political eras.She was presented with a citation acknowledging her pivotal role as one of three Ghanaian partic­ipants at the historic 1991 UNESCO Windhoek Seminar on promoting an independent and plu­ralistic African press-a landmark event that laid the foundation for the declaration of World Press Freedom Day in 1993.The citation read in part:"You were one of three participants from Ghana invited by UNESCO to attend the historic 1991 Windhoek Seminar… As the only surviving mem­ber of the trio… you have kept faith with the tenets of press freedom over the years… your reportage, through your foreign media platforms, kept Ghana­ians tuned-in [during] the 'Culture of Silence'… In recognition and appreciation of your pioneering role in the advancement of press freedom and indepen­dent journalism in Ghana, the GJA honours you, Ajoa Yeboah-Afari, with this citation."The two other Ghanaian participants at the sem­inar-Prof.

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