Covering sports in heels
Over the past few years that Juliet Bawuah has been at it, the TV3 sports producer and presenter has managed to be everybody’s darling girl, ‘kicking’ ( in high heels) her way through the hearts of the millions she reaches online, on air, in print, and on television.
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Young, and rising, she fits the perfect description of an idea whose time has come. Slowly, she has toed an impressive career path.
She has worked with Metro TV, E.tv (Ghana), and Citi FM. She has also written for the global football website, Goal.com, and currently does same, for cafonline.com, the official website of the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
Juliet is well travelled, interviewed some of sports’ biggest names, and has attended some of the world’s biggest events, too. In the last few years, she’s interviewed the likes of former Manchester United player, Winfred Zaha, Spanish World Cup winning coach Vicente Del Bosque, Abedi Pele, a chunk of both the old and new generation of the current Black Stars team, as well as some of football’s leading administrators.
Scheduled to be telecast on TV3 on Thursday June 12, is her documentary on Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah. Titled ‘Kwesi Appiah: the Silent Killer’, it chronicles Appiah’s long rise to acceptance and appreciation. She goes behind the scenes to talk to persons who know him all too well.
“This is something I have been working on for sometime now,” she says of her upcoming work. “I am happy it has turned out well. I would be pleased to see it aired on Thursday. This documentary presents you with a Kwesi Appiah you never knew.”
Doing this for well over half a decade, she must have hit the road block some few times, feeling all weary and wanting to give up, but she says she has grown to accept that every professions comes with its own hazards.
“I used to worry about the heckling and sometimes the treatment of near contempt by persons who thought you had no business being in here. But I have grown to accept that some of life’s most treasured assets take a while before they mature.”
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“I believe I am a work in progress; one day, when all is said and done, I can look back and smile.”
Juliet Bawuah holds a BA Degree in Journalism and Public Relations from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, and a Diploma in Communication Studies from the African University College of communications.