Anita Erskine

Anita Erskine was born in Jerusalem, a daughter of the soldier and politician Lieutenant General Emmanuel Erskine. She grew up in Ghana and went on to present on TV and radio in both English and French.

Education

Vered-Marian Anita Erskine was born on 3 December 1978. She attended Christ the King International School and Ghana International School, moved to Canada in her late teens, and earned a degree in cultural studies at Trent University and a master's in communications management at McMaster.

Broadcasting

Her first Ghanaian TV job was hosting a Bold and the Beautiful omnibus show on Metro TV in 1998. In Toronto she presented on Flow 93.5. Back in Ghana she hosted TV3's Mentor from 2006, reported for M-Net's Studio 53 and produced programming at Viasat 1, where she later hosted The One Show. Between 2007 and 2009 she was corporate communications director at Tigo. From 2015 to November 2017 she co-hosted Starr Drive on Starr FM with Bola Ray.

Sheroes and Africa's Business Heroes

She founded a communications firm in 2016 and hosts Anita Erskine's Sheroes, shown on her YouTube network and Akwaaba Magic. She is the host and an adviser of Africa's Business Heroes, the Jack Ma Foundation's entrepreneurship prize. She also campaigns for girls' education.