Ofeibea Quist-Arcton/oʊˈfeɪbiəˌkwɪstˈɑːrktən/ (born 4 August 1958) is a Ghanaian-British^[1] retired radio journalist, correspondent, commentator and broadcaster. She is best known as the formerDakar-based West Africa correspondent forNational Public Radio.^[2] She grew up inGhana,Italy,Britain, andKenya.

Quist-Arcton was born inOxford, England, on 4 August 1958.^[3] She began kindergarten in Ghana and went to high school and university in the United Kingdom.

Quist-Arcton obtained a BA with honours in French Studies (with international relations and Spanish) at theLondon School of Economics and went on to complete a year's course in radio journalism at thePolytechnic of Central London. This course included two internships at theBBC, which she joined in 1985.

Quist-Arcton was appointed the BBC West Africa correspondent in 1990, heading the regional bureau inAbidjan,Ivory Coast, and covering 24 countries.

In 1994 she returned to BBC's Bush House in London, where she served as a host and senior producer on the BBC World Service flagship programsNewshour andNewsday(later renamedThe World Today before that program was in turn replaced by a new show, again calledNewsday), as well as a contributing Africa specialist for other BBC programming.

Beginning in 1995 Quist-Arcton began work in the United States of America for the joint BBC-PRI productionThe World.

After briefly returning to BBC World Service, in 1998 Quist-Arcton was appointed co-host of theSouth African Broadcasting Corporation's flagship radio drive-time showPM Live in Johannesburg.

She returned to the BBC in 2000 as an Africa correspondent.

In 2001, she covered theUnited Nations Special Session onHIV/AIDS for the African news agencyallAfrica.com - focusing onSenegal, with special reports on the country's battle against HIV/AIDS – and the high praises received from the UN for leading "Africa in combating AIDS on the continent", and as "one of only three nations worldwide to successfully contain the pandemic."^[4]

Quist-Arcton joined National Public Radio in 2004 at the newly created post ofWest Africa Correspondent inDakar, Senegal. She reports on Africa, covering all aspects of life and developments on the continent.

Quist-Arcton was awarded the 2015 Edward R. Murrow prize for her reporting on the 2014 Ebola epidemic and Boko Haram, which she shared with photojournalistDavid Gilkey.^[5]

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