Exit ‘The Grandmaster’: Game over!
Godwin Avenorgbo (The Grandmaster) Kofi Yeboah Writes, I don’t know how he got the accolade ‘The Grandmaster’ but having studied him closely as my boss and senior colleague, I don’t need a soundbite of that story because Godwin Avenorgbo was professional to a fault. Speaking fine English and pouncing on the least opportunity to tell his audience he learned to speak good English in lower primary, were not more boastful of a trait than his exhibition of professionalism and demand for same. Before and during my journalism training at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) (1994 – 1996), Godwin Avenorgbo was very grand in broadcasting and I got hooked to his professional brand. On stage, whether as programme host on radio or Master of Ceremony at state and public functions, his eloquence, delivery skills and powerful voice engaged his audience, as he drove them to celestial realms. Indeed, he emceed many high-profile state, public and traditional events, and he became a nation