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Kweku Baako Jnr

journalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ6450303 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kweku Baako Jnr is a Ghanaian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper he was also the son of Kofi Baako. He is a frequent panelist on radio shows in Ghana, including Peace FM's weekday morning show and Newsfile, a current affairs programme on Joy FM (Ghana). In 1999 he was awarded the Journalist of the Year by the Ghana Journalists Association.

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The public source identifies “Kweku Baako Jnr” as journalist. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kweku, Baako and journalist.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kweku, Baako and journalist providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6450303. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kweku Baako Jnr” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.