Professor Eric Opoku Mensah

Vice-Chancellor, University of Media, Arts and Communication

Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Researcher, Academic Administrator

Professor Eric Opoku Mensah is a Ghanaian academic whose scholarship focuses on rhetoric, political communication, media studies, and the relationship between public discourse and democratic life. He holds a bachelor's degree in English Language and a Master of Philosophy in English Language from the University of Cape Coast, followed by a doctorate from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. His doctoral research examined the political communication of Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, establishing a foundation for his continuing interest in political rhetoric, national identity, and public communication. Opoku Mensah built his academic career at the Ghana Institute of Journalism before its integration into the University of Media, Arts and Communication. He served as Deputy Rector of the institute, assuming the role in 2020, and subsequently became Acting Rector of the Institute of Journalism in 2022 before taking up the substantive rectorship in 2023. During this period, his leadership responsibilities included academic programme development, strengthening research output, aligning teaching with national tertiary education standards, and expanding undergraduate and postgraduate offerings. In 2024, following the retirement of Vice-Chancellor Professor Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo, he became Acting Vice-Chancellor and was subsequently appointed substantive Vice-Chancellor for a four-year term.