Boakye-Dankwa Boadi was born in Kumasi, Ghana on 2nd November 1951 to Opayin Kofi Boadi, a Cocoa Farmer, and Madam Akua Obiyaa. He was the third son of Akua Obiyaa and the eighth child of Kofi Boadi.
He had his basic education at Asem Boys School in Kumasi, incidentally the same school that the Former Secretary General of the
United Nations, Busumuru Kofi Annan and the Former President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor had attended earlier.
He had his college education at Ghana Secondary School, Koforidua.
Boakye-Dankwa taught at Kumasi High School, Kumasi, where the Former Minister of Finance, Kwadwo Baah Wiredu was a student, after Sixth Form before continuing his education at the University of Ghana, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Ancient History in 1975.
Boakye-Dankwa did his National Service at Acherensua Secondary School in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana and went back to the University Of Ghana School Of Communication Studies to read for Post-Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication in 1976/7.
In October 1977, Boakye-Dankwa went to Nigeria in search of petrol-naira, - that was the period of oil the discovery and many West Africans trooped there. He practised as a Freelance Journalist, a Teacher and a Lecturer and became the Head of the Social Studies
Department at the University of Jos Advanced Teachers’ Training College at Oju in Benue State of Nigeria from 1981 to 1985.
He returned to Ghana and joined the Ghana News Agency in October 1985. In March 1986 he was posted to Tamale as the Deputy Northern
Regional Manager/Correspondent.
In October 1987 he was appointed the Regional Manager/Correspondent of the Upper East Region and moved to Bolgatanga. He returned to the Headquarters of the Agency in Accra in 1998 after 12 years stay in Northern Ghana and worked at the Home Desk as a Gatekeeper. He rose to become the Chief Gatekeeper.
In February 2007 he was appointed the Supervising Chief Editor of Ghana News Agency after a competitive interview. By the GNA
hierarchy, the Supervising Chief Editor is the Deputy of the General Manager/CEO. He has the final word on what gets on to the Agency’s
Network.
He is a part-time lecturer of journalism at the Ghana Institute of Journalism, Ghana’s foremost and prestigious journalism school, in
Accra.
Boakye-Dankwa in the course of his professional career has played very critical roles in safeguarding the stability of Ghana.
It was a story he wrote about President John Evans Atta Mills conceding defeat in the 2000 General Election that paved the way for
the smooth transfer of power from one elected government to another elected government in the history of Ghana. The hawks in the ruling
National Democratic Congress (NDC) had insisted that the Elections were rigged in the Ashanti Region and, therefore, the results from
there should be discounted. If that had happened it could have thrown the nation into a possible post-election violence. President John Evans Atta Mills acknowledged the strategic role the story played when he met Boakye-Dankwa at the Greenland Hotel in Swedru, Central Region
of Ghana, some years later.
Boakye-Dankwa was in charge of the GNA team that covered the May 9, 2001 Accra Sports Stadium disaster that enabled the Agency to come
out with the correct number of 126 dead as against figures put out by other Government agencies and media houses. The 127th victim died two weeks later.
In March 2002, another story Boakye-Dankwa initiated made the warriors of the Andani Gate from Tamale, who were on their way to
attack the Abudus in Yendi, following the assassination of the Overlord of Dagbon Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II, to return to Tamale and
thereby prevented a possible bloodbath.
Again in 2008 a story Boakye-Dankwa wrote in which he stated that Former President John Agyekum Kufuor had directed all to accept the
results of the 2008 Presidential Election Runoff when declared by the Electoral Commissioner, dissipated the tension that had engulfed the
whole country and paved the way for the peaceful transfer of power from the New Patriotic Party to the National Democratic Congress.
The vigilance Boakye-Dankwa exercised aborted Newmont Ghana Gold Limited’s attempt to cover up cyanide spillage at its Ahafo Mine in
October 2009, which eventually earned the country GH¢ 7 million in form of a fine imposed on the Company by the Government.
He has written many articles on topics ranging from archaeology to zoology. These can be accessed by Googling: Boakye-Dankwa Boadi.
Boakye-Dankwa was a Junior Consultant in the preparation of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Northern Savannah Conservation Project for which the World Bank released $5 million grant to the Ghana Government.
He has attended a number of courses including the Fourth Ghana Security Sector, Governance and Management Course at the Ghana Armed Forces Command & Staff College, Accra, Ghana, and Management Course at the Management Development and Productivity Institute, Accra.
The German Government gratuitously sponsored him to witness state elections in the Free State of Saxony and Brandenburg in 2004.
He has attended a number of international conferences including the Africa Y2K Conference held in Accra in 1999, on the eve of the new
millennium, and Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum held in Bonn, Germany in 2009 and 2010.
He is married and has three children.
His hobbies include watching soccer and athletics on television.
He was in China to witness the Beijing Olympics at the invitation of the Chinese Government.