His Excellency Mr. Kabral Blay-Amihere studied History and Sociology at the University of Ghana, Legon, and took a post-graduate course in Journalism and Communication at the same University. Ambassador Blay-Amihere is an aluminus of the London School Diploma in International and Comparative Politics in July 1987.

Before moving into the world of diplomacy, Ambassador Blay- Amihere was a distinguished journalist of international repute. A Nieman Fellow of Havard University, he edited several newspapers in Ghana and established his own newspaper The Independent in 1989. He was at one time the Director of the Ghana Institute of Journalism, the first School of Journalism in West Africa.

As President of the Ghana Journalists Association and later the West African Journalists Association, he contributed immensely to the establishment of media pluralism in his native Ghana and in West Africa in general. Ambassador Blay-Amihere served as an executive member of the Commonwealth Journalists Association and the International Federation of Journalists which contributed to the strengthening of media organizations in West Africa and co-ordinated the establishment of press centres in the sub-region. He was a founding member of the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and member of the Governing Council of the Ottawa-based International Freedom of Expression Exchange, an international NGO that monitors press freedom violations worldwide.
In 1981 he was voted Ghana's Journalist of the Year and in 1991 honoured by the National Association of Black Journalists of the United States with the Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist Award, for his contribution to the struggle for press freedom and democracy.

He is the author of two books TEARS FOR A CONTINENT, AN AMERICAN DIARY and FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AFRICAN JOURNALIST. He also co-edited several books on journalism, including the STATE OF THE MEDIA IN GHANA and STATE MEDIA IN WEST AFRICA.

Ambassador Blay-Amihere is married to Esaaba and has five children, Markus, Zandile, Zeba, Blaychee and Rebba.