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Gippsland mass communications and writing lecturer Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo
is fluent in four languages - not surprising considering there are about 50
in use in his home country of Ghana.
"I speak four-and-a-half, actually - English, Norwegian, two Ghanaian languages, and very rudimentary French, which is the half," he said.
Kwamena, known to his Gippsland peers as 'Aspa', was studying, teaching and working as a freelance newspaper journalist in Ghana before he moved to Norway in 1991.
There he learned to speak Norwegian and completed a masters degree in communication while working for a magazine called Africa Speaks, dedicated to the African community in Norway.
In January 1996, he came to Australia, where he worked part-time at both Queensland University of Technology and Central Queensland University, at the same time completing his PhD in mass media agenda setting and environmental issues.
After years of city living, Kwamena decided to move to the rural Churchill area last year when he took up his appointment at Monash Gippsland.
"I like the fact that there's a nice stretch of green outside my window and almost more cows than humans beings," he said.
Kwamena is mad about soccer - "the best game ever invented" - plays basketball and is active in his local church.
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