Goodwin Tutum Anim

Goodwin Tutum Anim, also known by the name Isaac Goodwin Aikins, was a Ghanaian journalist. He was the first African Managing Director of the Ghana News Agency and later Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Arts and Culture.

Early life and education Anim was born on 29 May 1929 at Intsin, Cape Coast. He was christened Isaac Aikins by his maternal grandfather in the absence of his father. and later proceeded to the University of Ghana where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

Career Anim begun his professional career in 1958 at the Ghana News Agency (GNA) as a trainee reporter, reporter sub-editor and foreign correspondent. and in 1961, he was appointed General Manager of the Ghana News Agency, becoming the first African and Ghanaian head of the agency. A year later, he became the Secretary of the Association of Ghanaian Journalists (later Ghana Journalists Association), a position he held for two years, and between 1963 and 1965, he was made Secretary-General and later Vice-President of the Union of African News Agencies. He served as the General Manager of the Ghana News Agency from 1961 until 1966 when the Nkrumah government was overthrown.

In 1978, he was a member of the 1978 Constitutional Commission that was responsible for drafting the constitution for the Third Republic of Ghana.

He became a UNESCO consultant to the Pan African News Agency (PANA) and to news agencies in West, Central and East Africa from 1980 to 1981. Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Angola, and Mauritius among other countries. Together they had seven children. He was laid to rest in a private ceremony on Friday 16 October 2020. A memorial service was held in his honour by the Ghana News Agency and the Ghana Journalists Association. He was survived by seven children, eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.