Introduction

Kabu Nartey has been described by one of Ghana’s media as “One of Ghana’s fast rising young leaders” with multiple awards in leadership, communication, law and legal advocacy. He is ranked among 50 most Influential Youths in Ghana; among the 100 Most Promising Law Students in Ghana and among the World’s Top 200 Best Oralists in legal moot advocacy.

Leadership and Activism

In Leadership and Activism, Kabu Nartey has served in many positions and exhibited stellar prowess and results including the Director of the Ghana University Debate Association (GUDA) from 2016-2017; Executive Assistant at the African Centre for International Criminal Justice, ACICJ, GIMPA from 2016-2020. He is a fellow of the prestigious John Agyekum Kufuor Scholars Program under the mentorship of the former president of the Republic, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor. He was the Secretary of the largest youth movement in Ghana, the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) from 2017-2018 where he authored the first ever memoir by a NUGS General Secretary aimed at addressing the partisan challenges confronting the movement. Two years later, he received the NUGS Presidential Honourary Award for his outstanding contribution to the welfare of Ghanaian students, home and abroad. He was celebrated as the Best Student Activist in 2017 by the Leadership, Governance and Accountability Platform (LeGAP). In 2022, the Law Student Union of the University of Ghana celebrated him as the Most Versatile Law Student and in 2023, Most Influential Law Student due to his service to the faculty, university community and Ghana as a whole. In 2019, the Avance Media Africa ranked him among the 50 Most Influential Youths in Ghana emerging in the category of Academic and Personal Development.

Communication and Journalism

In Communication and Journalism, Kabu Nartey has authored over 200 socio-economic and political articles, features, commentaries and patriotic opinions published on leading media outlets including MyJoyOnline.com, Citinewsroom.com, 3newsroom.com, GhanaWeb and the Fourth Estate and Starrfm.com. He served as a Volunteer at Radio Univers from 2013 -2014 as a student journalist and later moved to the State Broadcaster (GTV) where he focused on developmental journalism and rural reporting. For his hard work and patriotic ink, he was adjudged the Student Journalist of the Year by the Ghana Journalists Association in 2018. A year before, he had graduated with first class honours from the Ghana Institute of Journalism where he bagged two awards – Most Promising Student Journalist of the Year and the Best Student in Print Journalism. Kabu Nartey became the youngest recipient of the 2019 GIJ 30 under 60 Award aimed at recognizing the excellence of GIJ alumni as part of the school’s 60th Anniversary. He was the Research Assistant to ace journalist Manasseh Azure on his best-selling political book in Ghana’s recent history The Fourth John: Reign, Rejection and Rebound. He is an author of The President in Exile, a book (manuscript) dedicated to the memories of his late father. He narrates the ordeal his father went through during Ghana’s revolutionary days. The book also chronicles the late business tycoon’s role in Ghana’s contemporary politics and the developmental agenda championed by Ghana’s first president Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

Law and Legal Advocacy

In Law and Legal Advocacy, Kabu Nartey traces his oratory skills to his formative years in public speaking and debate where he represented and won a number of national and international awards for his alma matter at both Senior High and tertiary levels. In addition, he founded the Writers and Debaters Societies of his alma matter and embarked on a number of activities to nurture talents in the field of writing and speaking. In 2022, he emerged the Best Oralist and Champion at the Federation of All African Law Student (FALAS) Moot Court Championship held in Johannesburg. In the same year, he led the University of Ghana team to win the national rounds of the world’s largest moot court championship, The Philip C. Jessup Moot and represented Ghana in the international rounds. He made history by defending the title for the second consecutive time in 2023 becoming a two-time national champion of the Jessup Moot. He again represented the University of Ghana and Ghana in Washington in the White and Case international rounds where he was ranked the 3rd Best Oralist from Africa and 85th in the world among the Top 200 Oralists at the White and Case international rounds; and he and his team received an honourary mention made by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo at the 2023 Special Congregation.

Kabu Nartey is privileged to be an acknowledged proof-reader of one of Ghana’s foremost legal luminaries, Prof E.K Abotsi’ Constitutional law book, Constitutional law of Ghana; Texts, Commentary and Case law. The young scholar has authored over 7 legal articles and publications on Constitutional Law and Ghana’s Legal Education, including Interpreting the Constitution, 1992; A Peep into the Mind of the Modern Judge, Did the Living Organism Die; the Whereabout of Ghana’s Past Constitutions; Constitutional Jurisprudence ; Diagnosing the Judges in Ransford France (No. 2); Dear Citizens of Allegiance; A Critique of the Justice Adbullai case by the Supreme Court of Ghana; The Stones the Builders Rejected became the Cornerstones; A Text-Documentary of the UG SRC Elections 2021; Legal Education: Why I Protest in Fear but in Faith among others and has hosted renowned jurists and Ghanaian lawyers including Court of Appeal Judge, His Lordship Justice Ernest Owusu-Dapaah. During his LLB days in the University of Ghana School of Law (UGSol) was a Senator (synonymous to Member of Parliament) for his class. He later became the Law Student Representative to the UG SRC General Assembly where he embarked on unprecedented legal activism in shaping the jurisprudence of the SRC and the University as a whole. By reason of his sound and timely legal analysis, he become an in-house student counsel for the University’s radio station, Radio Univers before, during and after the SRC Elections 2021 where he explained legalese issues to students, an activism that the Pro Vice Chancellor for Student and Academic Affairs, Professor Gordon Awandare would disclose he followed keenly followed and appreciated. In 2023, he served as a Research Assistant to tax law expert and lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Law, Courage A. Asabagna on his paper Towards a Progressive Tax System for Persons Living with Disability in Ghana: Lessons from the ‘Abled’ which was delivered at the 8th African Tax Research Network held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is a leading founder and first managing partner of a student firm Lex Apex Associates and led the team in its first year to becoming champions of the Bentsi-Enchill Letsa and Ankomah Moot Court Championship organized by the University of Ghana School of Law SRC. He has been ranked among 100 Most Promising Law Student in Ghana by FALAS.

Education

Kabu Nartey attended Aggrey Memorial International School in Kanda where he was the Head Prefect. He had his secondary education at the Winneba Senior High School where he was the Boys Prefect (Academics). He attended the GBC Radio and Television College in 2014 before obtaining a degree in Communications (Journalism) at the Ghana Institute of Journalism now University of Media, Arts and Communications from 2015-2018 under the Lebanese Embassy Scholarship. He obtained a Masters in Development at the same university under the same scholarship. He has an LLB from the University of Ghana School of Law from 2020-2023 after which he passed the Professional Law Course Exams and gained admission into the Ghana School of Law in 2023 where he is studying to become a lawyer with major interest in Constitutional, Media and International Law. He is currently serving his colleagues as a Class Representative to Management.

Conferences and Debates

The budding lawyer has attended a number of conferences on literature, law, governance and politics across the continent and in Europe including South Africa, Rwanda, US, Italy among others. He has also participated in a number of leadership and political debates and interviews on national television and international shows.