Before launching her agency in Accra, Ford built experience across influential organizations and campaigns, including CNN International, the U.S. Department of State, the African Union, UNCTAD, Arsenal Football Club, MTN Ghana, and Chance the Rapper’s Black Star Line Festival. Those roles sharpened her understanding of narrative power, stakeholder dynamics, and execution under pressure. They also reinforced her conviction that cross-cultural communication requires local intelligence, not generic messaging frameworks.
Ford’s credibility is both academic and operational. She studied at Spelman College, American University, and the University of Oxford’s Media Policy and Technology Programme, then translated those foundations into on-the-ground market experience in Ghana. Her leadership extends into ecosystem roles, including Vice President of the Ghana-Jamaica Chamber of Commerce. She has consistently focused on long-horizon bridge building, linking policy, business, and culture in ways that enable practical exchange.
Her special projects further illustrate that approach. Through the Afro-Caribbean Festival WoodXWater, she created a platform connecting Africa and the Caribbean via trade, investment, and pop culture. The initiative drew international attention, including a BBC documentary feature during Ghana’s Year of Return in 2019. Rather than treat culture as peripheral, Ford positions it as a serious economic and diplomatic lever, capable of generating durable relationships and shared opportunity.
The Vision
Looking ahead, she is scaling Ford Communications as a primary gateway for cross-cultural market strategy and narrative leadership on the continent. Lakeshia Ford’s trajectory shows how communications can function as real infrastructure: shaping perception, unlocking access, and creating conditions where African and diaspora voices are represented with accuracy and power. Her work continues to turn alignment between identity, strategy, and execution into measurable institutional impact.
The Business
Ford Communications is a full-service strategic communications agency based in Accra, offering public relations, brand management, market entry consulting, and public diplomacy services. The client roster reads like a directory of institutional power: the British Council, World Remit, Ghandour Cosmetics, and organizations spanning oil and gas, technology, and culture. The firm’s core strength is its ability to craft strategies that resonate across cultures — particularly between Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean.
Beyond client services, Ford has built a portfolio of special projects that amplify Africa’s voice on the global stage. Her Afro-Caribbean Festival WoodXWater™ connects Africa and the Caribbean through trade, investment, and pop culture — a platform that earned her a BBC documentary feature in 2019 during Ghana’s Year of Return celebrations.
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