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Ghanaian UK Community Leader Honoured By Queen Elizabeth

By Ten Talents
Ghanaian UK Community Leader Honoured By Queen Elizabeth
05.01.2016 LISTEN

A well known Ghanaian community leader resident in the UK has been named on the Queen of England’s New Year’s Honours list to be awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM).

Archbishop Kwaku Frimpong Manson is a name that most Ghanaians living in the UK instantly recognise. He has been in Ministry for 25 years and carved a niche for himself as a consummate community leader, consulted by the police as well as other organisations on matters relating to the youth and community affairs.

“I am very proud to be honoured...I wanted to see change and I have seen change. I am 65 but engaged as ever. When you are passionate about your work, there is no need to retire. I live by the motto: the Beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are but how happy others can be because of you”

Archbishop Frimpong Manson is from Wiamoase in the Ashanti region where he was born. On arrival in the UK in 1987, he set up the Born-Again Evangelical Ministries which became a charity 1994 and was renamed Reconciliation International. He moved to the Broadwater Farm Estates in Tottenham in 1991 and became the Chairperson of the Estate in 1994, serving in this capacity until 2009.

In 2002, he was ordained as a Bishop, becoming a “freestanding” Archbishop ten years later in 2012 when he was elevated. Working in collaboration with then MP for Tottenham, Bernie Grant, recently, David Lammy, and other leaders of the Ghanaian and Afro-Caribbean UK community, Archbishop helped to improve relations between police and the youth living on the BWF Estate.

Archbishop Frimpong Manson carries out his many responsibilities from his busy offices based at the Broadwater Farm Estates, providing services including Bereavement Counselling, Youth engagement, Police liaison, Pastoral care for Mental Health Services and many more sometimes with very limited resources as funding is the biggest challenge for the organisation.

He is married to Mrs Philipina Nana Yaa Frimpong Manson with whom he has five children.

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