King Bygone started with a free Blogspot page. More than a decade later he has a university certificate in the craft.
The Ghanaian blogger and publisher, whose real name is Isaac Nana Yaw Annor, has graduated from the University of Media, Arts and Communication’s training programme for bloggers and digital content creators. He received his certificate at the close of the five-day course, held from 9 to 13 November at UniMAC’s South Legon campus in Accra.
One of 100
He was one of 100 bloggers chosen through the New Media Association of Ghana. UniMAC’s Chancellor, Ernest Ofori Sarpong, paid for every place, and the university calls the programme the first of its kind.
The week centred on professional skills and ethics. Vice-Chancellor Prof. Eric Opoku-Mensah asked the group for a commitment to “accuracy, privacy and ethical standards”, while Prof. Christiana Hammond, Rector of UniMAC’s Institute of Journalism, described the course as “the rare opportunity for personal and professional growth”.
The road to South Legon
The certificate caps a long run in Ghana’s online media. King Bygone began at bygonegh.blogspot.com, then wrote more than 380 articles for Opera News. He went on to work with broadcaster Abeiku Santana from 2016 to 2024 on media, publicity and branding.
Along the way he founded or took over a network of titles: Nsemwokrom, AfroYard, The Gospel Post, WePostWeddings and Culture Gossip among them. Avance Media named him one of Ghana’s Top 50 bloggers three years running, from 2021 to 2023, and in 2024 he qualified as a software engineer through ALX Africa.
Learning never stops
Formal media training is the latest step in that story. UniMAC has already announced the next one: an Advanced Certificate in Multimedia Content Creation, Strategy and Blogging in early 2027, covering monetisation, platform analytics and brand building.
Source: University of Media, Arts and Communication (UniMAC).
