Nii Akuetteh

Nii Akuetteh is a Ghanaian born policy analyst and activist.

Akuetteh is the founder of the Democracy & Conflict Research Institute based in Accra, Ghana.

[1][2] He is the former executive director of Africa Action and Editor at TransAfrica.

[3][4][5] He was married to Cynthia Archie Akuetteh, a U.S. diplomat and the former United States Ambassador to Gabon.

[6] During the 1980s, Akuetteh became involved in the anti-Apartheid movement in Washington, D.C.[7] Around 2000, Akuetteh moved to Nigeria, staying at Lagos and Abuja to create a grant-making foundation focused on the promulgation of democracy in West Africa.