Anas scoops Percy Qoboza Award in Washington

WASHINGTON, DC (May 22, 2012)- The Board of Directors of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has selected Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas for this year's Percy Qoboza Award. The honor will be recognized during NABJ's 37th Annual Convention and Career Fair, the largest annual gathering of minority journalistsin the country.

The Percy Qoboza award is named for the late editor of The World newspaper in Soweto, South Africa, whose powerful columns ranged from coverage of the 1976 Soweto Riots to the tragic horror of apartheid. Like Ooboza, Anas risks harm in pursuit of journalistic excellence and his efforts to be a voice for the voiceless. Anas was nominated by NABJ's Global Journalism Task Force.

For more than a decade, the deputy editor of The New Crusading