Mr. George Twumasi
George Twumasi of the Prempeh College O-level Class of '77 (and A-level Class of '79) is the co-founder and an Executive Director of the African Broadcast Network. Domiciling at Freeman House during his term of studies at Prempeh College, George, known to his close friends as Abicus, has always been an ardent pan-African visionary and proficient writer of fantasy oriented stories.
It is not surprising that his avowed lifetime goal, which he is actively pursuing, is to achieve the development of an internationally viable African film and television industry. After Prempeh College, George Twumasi attended the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) in Accra, between 1980 and 1983 where he graduated as a film director and scriptwriter.
George Twumasi won the Goethe Institute (Ghana) creative student award at NAFTI in 1983, for the best student documentary film. He subsequently joined Film Fair Animation Ltd (Central TV) in the UK where he worked as a trainee producer for three years. George left Film Fair in 1988 to set up his own research and development outfit – Studio Afrique Montage, after winning the 1987 KPMG (London) enterprise initiative award for the best start-up business plan in the UK of that year.
Through Studio Afrique Montage, George Twumasi has developed a series of extensively researched intellectual property concepts derived from African mythology, including the Tales of Fantonia, a proposed 26 part television series on Anansi stories which he intends to produce for the international children's' television entertainment market by 2005. George Twumasi has over the past 10 years, liased with Storm Group Plc. (UK), Lacewood Productions Inc. (Canada) and Heather Pedley Productions (UK) to develop several other intellectual property portfolios based on authentic African folklore.
George Twumasi is also the driving force behind the Pan-African Audio Visual Action Partnership (PAAVAP), which he is currently evolving through the African Broadcast Network (ABN). George Twumasi is working closely with several international media companies, 21 major African television broadcasters, and private-equity focused financial institutions; to establish a unified series of commercial, advertiser supported programme strands across the major television channels spanning Anglophone sub-Sahara Africa.
Born in the city of Takoradi, Ghana, on the 22nd of November 1960, George Twumasi is also committed to establish an Imagination Corporation of Africa Internet portal (and an envisaged intellectual property website), that will market relevant, inspiring entrepreneurial knowledge-based products, to and on behalf of dynamic African businesses within Africa and throughout the Diaspora. George Twumasi is a devoted Christian, who hopes to make a modest contribution towards the development of a positive, globally relevant, pan-African enterprise culture.
