Akoss Ofori-Mensah received her BA Honours Degree in English from the
University of Ghana. She taught English at Aburi Girls Secondary School
for two years
and then went to Nottingham University in the UK for a Post Graduate
Diploma in English. In 1974, she received an internship at the United
Nations
Fund For Population Activities in New York for six months and then
went on to study a Master’s Degree in Population Education at the
University of
Chicago, IL. She returned to Ghana in 1976 and worked with Afram
Publications as a Managing Editor. She left Afram in 1978 and joined the
Halko Group
of Companies, where she rose to become the Managing Director of the
Group. In 1993 Akoss started her own publishing house – Sub-Saharan Publishers
for children’s books. Akoss has served on the Ghana Book Publishers
Association as the Honorary Secretary
and Vice President. She was elected President of the Association
from 2003-2005. She has been a member of The African Publishers Network
(APNET) and
is part of African Books Collective’s council of management.
