Our founder and executive president

Osoronko Nana-Yabani, is the Founder and Executive President of the Olof Palme Peace Foundation International, a powerful voice on violence against women, was born on February 1st 1947. As a scholar he has striven to improve the development of young minds and he decided at an early age that he wanted to spread the message of peace. He has spent most of his life preaching peace. Since his country, Ghana gave him an example of what true freedom is, he wanted to share his experience with the world. With his natural poetic talents, he began reaching out to people with his effective poems. He wrote an Eulogy in honor of the great Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme after his death in 1986., and shortly after founded a peace foundation to honor Mr. Olof Palme, the Olof Palme Peace Foundation. Osoronko Nana-Yabani is a chef, a sailor, a linguist, an international poet, a historian, and avid reader, and a UN peace messenger. 

Mr. Nana-Yabani has worked throughout the continent of Africa, serving as an emissary of the United Nations in assessing the conditions in prisons in Western Africa.  He is fluent in Twi, Akan, German, and Russian.