Anas Aremeyaw Anas

Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a Ghanaian investigative journalist born in the late 1970s. Anas motto is "name, shame and jail" and he is famous for utilizing his anonymity as a tool in his investigative arsenal, and very few people had seen his face until "unmasking" during a BBC interview in November 2015. . A politically non-aligned multimedia journalist who specializes in print media and documentary, Anas focuses on issues of human rights and anti-corruption in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa.

Anas has won critical acclaim for his work advocating for basic human rights such as the right to not be held in human slavery or servitude and for his work exposing corruption. His investigative works have won him worldwide acclaim with President Barack Obama highlighting his virtues in a speech during his 2009 visit to Ghana: "An independent press. A vibrant private sector. A civil society. Those are the things that give life to democracy. We see that spirit in courageous journalists like Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who risked his life to report the truth." Anas has won over fourteen international awards for his investigative work. He was polled as the 5th most influential Ghanaian in 2011 by ETV. and named one of the "Most Influential Africans of the Year "by the New African Magazine. in December 2014. "Chameleon" by Ryan Mullins, a documentary about Anas' life and work was premiered at the 2014 IDFA festival in Amsterdam. In December 2015 Foreign Policy magazine named Anas one of 2015's leading global thinkers, an honour previously granted to the likes of Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Pope Benedict XVI, and Malala Yousafzai.