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Godwin Etse Sikanku is a Political Scientist, Author, Lecturer and Head of Directorate for Research, Innovations & Development (DRID) at the Ghana Institute of Journalism. He is best known for his book on Barack Obama, titled “The Afrocentric Obama and lessons on politi­cal campaigns”.

Awards

 * Outstanding reportage on developmental issues, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Media Awards, Accra-Ghana, 2006
 * Society of Professional Journalist award for top college newspaper, Iowa State Daily staff, 2008
 * Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa Office of Residential Life, 2009
 * John F. Murray award for outstanding doctoral student (research), University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2011
 * Leon Barnes Scholarship, University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2011
 * Best research paper for the Freedom of Expression and Political Communication Interest Group at the upcoming 2023 Western States Communication Association conference in Arizona, USA.

Research and Publications

 * 1) Sikanku, E. G. (2008). Inter-media agenda-setting effects in Ghana: Newspaper vs. online and state vs. private, Iowa State University
 * 2) Sikanku, E. G. (2008). The media, agenda setting and African unity: prospects and implications. Paper accepted at the annual conference of the Mid-American Alliance for African Studies, St. Louis, MO.
 * 3) Comparative appraisal of party politics in Ghana: An ideological analysis of pre-independence and post-independence political parties. Paper accepted at the annual conference of the African Studies Association, New Orleans, LA. 2009
 * 4) Sikanku, E. G. (2009). Media framing of Sarah Palin in the aftermath of her interview with Katie Couric. Paper accepted at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Mexico City, Mexico.
 * 5) Sikanku, E. G. (2009). Inter-media agenda setting effects between print and online newspapers in Ghana. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. International Communication Division, Boston, MA.
 * 6) Sikanku, E. G. (2010). On Obama’s post-colonial identity construction: A framing analysis. Paper accepted at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.
 * 7) Sikanku, E. G. (2010). An analysis of Topic agenda influences for government owned and private news websites. Paper accepted at the annual conference of the International Communication Association. Global Communication and Change Division, Singapore.
 * 8) Sikanku, E. G. (2010). Framing Barack Obama’s first visit to Sub-Saharan Africa as president: A comparative analysis of African and non-African news coverage. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. International Communication Division, Denver, CO.
 * 9) Sikanku, E. G. (2010). A cross-lagged analysis of topic-based agenda setting influences in Ghana: An inter-media agenda setting study. International Communication Research Journal, 45 (3), 28-49.
 * 10) Sikanku, E. G. (2010) Framing Barack Obama’s first visit to Sub-Saharan Africa as president: A comparative analysis of African and non-African news coverage.
 * 11) Sikanku, E. G. (2011). Inter-media influences among Ghanaian online and print news media: Explicating salience transfer of media agendas. Journal of Black Studies, 42, 1320-1338.
 * 12) Sikanku, E. G., & Yarnes, N. (2012). The Modern El Pluribus Unum Man. How Obama constructed his American identity from his global background. In Nicholas Yanes & Derrias Carter (Eds.), Obama-Mania:  Critical essays on representations, discussions and  meditations in popular culture of President Barack Obama. McFarland: New York.
 * 13) Sikanku, E.G. (2014). Press Freedom in Ghana: A Comparative Analysis of the Nkrumah and Kufuor Administrations. Legon Journal of International Affairs and Diplomacy, 7 (2).
 * 14) Sikanku, E.G., & Amoakohene, M.I., (2014). Media Discourse of President Barack Obama in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Yusuf, K., & Kopytowska, M.W. (Eds). Why Discourse Matters: Negotiating Identity in a Mediatized World. Peter Lang Publishing Inc: New York.
 * 15) Sikanku, E.G. (2014). Consolidating inter-media agenda-setting research in Ghana: A study of associational relationships among wire, online, and print news media. Journal of Black Studies. Sage Publications.
 * 16) Sikanku, G.E. (2016). Obama’s Africa legacy. Presentation to Harvard African Law Students Association. Harvard University. Boston: United States of America.
 * 17) Blankson, I. A., & Sikanku, E. G. (2019). Media and Communication Strategies. How to communicate environmental issues. Presentation to staff of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Accra: Ghana.
 * 18) Avle, B., Sikanku, E. G., & Akoto, K. (2019). Interviewing and Communication Skills for Non-Communication Professions. Presentation to the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA). Accra: Ghana.
 * 19) Sikanku, E. G. (2019). Understand Framing and Political Communication. New York University Summer Program in Ghana. Accra: Ghana.
 * 20) Sikanku, E. G., N. K. Osei Fordjour (2022). New year, COVID-19, and political public relations: A mixed methods frame analysis of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s crisis communication on Twitter. The Journal of Social Media in Society. 11. 2. 29-52.
 * 21) Sikanku, E. G., N. K. Osei Fordjour (2022). Vice-presidential candidates, language frames, and functions across two continental divides: An analysis of acceptance speeches, International Journal of Communication.
 * 22) Sikanku, E. G., N. K. Osei Fordjour, E. Opoku Mensah, K. Kwansah-Aidoo (2023). A comparative analysis of Hillary Clinton and John Mahama’s concession speeches in the 2016 US and Ghanaian Presidential Elections. Howard Journal of Communications.  Routledge.
 * 23) Sikanku, E. G., E. K. Addae (2023). Mixing Business with Politics: A Framing Analysis of Sir Sam Jonah’s “Down the Up Escalator” Activist CEO Speech of April 22, 2021. Public Relations Management in Africa Volume 2: The Practical, the Conceptual and the Empirical. 219-244. Springer International Publishing.
 * 24) Sikanku, E. G. (2023). The Obama creed in retrospect: Communicative frames and representations from an Afrocentric perspective. Communication and the Public. SAGE Publications.