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Afua
Afua (, ) or Efua (, ) is an Akan day name traditionally given to girls born on a Friday; the equivalent male name is Kofi. Given name or day name * Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse, Ghanaian pædiatric surgeon and former president of the Medical Women's International Association * Afua Bruce, American engineer, data executive, professor, and politician * Afua Cooper (born 1957), Canadian historian and dub poet, born in Jamaica * Afua Hirsch (born 1981), British writer, broadcaster, and former barrister, born in Norway * Afua Kobi (fl. 1834–1884), of the Ashanti Empire * Afua Kuma (1908–1987), Ghanaian oral theologian * Afua Osei, American entrepreneur and public speaker, co-founder of She Leads Africa * Afua Richardson (born 1980), African–Native American comic book artist * Efua Asibon, Ghanaian businesswoman * Efua Baker (born c. 1967), British singer-songwriter and celebrity fitness expert, born in Ghana * Efua Dorkenoo (1949–2014), affectionately known as "Mama Efua", Gha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch (born 1981) is a British writer and broadcaster. She has worked as a journalist for ''The Guardian'' newspaper, and was the Social Affairs and Education Editor for Sky News from 2014 until 2017. Early life Afua Hirsch was born in Stavanger, Norway, to a British father and an Akan mother from Ghana, and was raised in Wimbledon, southwest London. Her paternal grandfather, Hans (later John), who was Jewish, had fled Berlin in 1938. Her great-uncle is the metallurgist, Sir Peter Hirsch. Her maternal grandfather, who graduated from the University of Cambridge, was involved in establishing the post-independence education system in Ghana but later became a political exile. Hirsch was educated at the private Wimbledon High School, and then studied philosophy, politics, and economics at St Peter's College, Oxford (1999–2002). After her graduation with a Bachelor of Arts degree, she took the Graduate Diploma in Law at the BPP Law School. She qualified as a barrister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afua Cooper
Afua Cooper (born 8 November 1957) is a Jamaican-born Canadian historian. In 2018 she is an associate professor of sociology at Dalhousie University. She is an author and dub poet. As of 2018 she has published five volumes of poetry."Best-selling author Afua Cooper appointed Halifax's new poet laureate" ''National Post'', 23 April 2018 Early life and education Born in Westmoreland, Jamaica, Cooper grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, and migrated to |
Afua Bruce
Afua Bruce is an American engineer, data executive, professor, and former U.S. government official who has held appointments at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and on President Joe Biden’s transition agency review team at the Department of Justice. In 2021, a statue was erected in Bruce's honor in Dallas, Texas by the American Association for Advancement of Science. Bruce is a public interest technologist. Education Bruce received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. At Purdue, Bruce was one of two recipients of the BP Amoco merit-based scholarship. Career Bruce began her career as a software engineer at IBM. She then joined the FBI where she served in various strategy and program management roles. In 2015, she was appointed to the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House as the Executive Director of the National Scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse
Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse, , is a Ghanaian surgeon and the first Ghanaian-trained female doctor to become a paediatric surgeon. In August 2010, she became the first Ghanaian and second African to be elected President of the Medical Women's International Association (MWIA). Education and training Afua Hesse was born on 11 September in Kumasi. She had her secondary level education at the Wesley Girls' Senior High School in Cape Coast. Then furthered at the University of Ghana Medical School where she trained to become a medical doctor. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSE), UK, and the West African College of Surgeons (FWACS) as well as a Foundation Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons (FFGCS). She is also a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons (FICS). She holds a Level 8 Diploma of the Chartered Management Institute, London, UK She also holds a certificate in Health Management Administration for Senior Health Practition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afua Richardson
Afua Richardson is an African-Native American artist. She did covers for five issues of Marvel's '' World of Wakanda'' and art for a short story backup in the first issue. Her comic, ''Genius'', with writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman won Top Cow's 2008 Pilot Season. She illustrated a Langston Hughes poem in 2014 for NPR's ''Black History Month'', and did variant covers for several comic book titles including ''All Star Batman'' for DC comics, ''Attack on Titan'' for Kodansha, ''Mad Max'' for Vertigo, as well as covers/variant covers for ''X-Men '92'', ''Totally Awesome Hulk'', ''Shuri'', and ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'' at Marvel Comics. She was one of a small group of African American women artists who were employed by the "big two" comic publishers at the time she entered the industry. Biography Richardson was raised in New York City. From a family of scientists, she studied classical flute from age nine. As a flautist, she performed with ensembles at C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afua Kobi
Afua Kobi (fl. 1834–1884) was an ''asantehemaa'' of the Ashanti Empire. Afua Kobi, an Asante ruler in the Asante Kingdom in present day Ghana, was an "''asantehemaa"'', that refers to a "queen mother". She informed the Asante royal council to avoid the war with British in the 19th century, but was active in the ensuing war. Afua Kobi was born into Asante aristocracy and was the daughter of ''asantehene'', the king Owusu Afriye and ''asantehemaa'' Afua Sapon, and became the ninth ''asantehemaa'' in the Asante dynasty. Personal life After being the ninth Asantehemaa in the Asante dynasty, she married one of the ruling ''asantehenes's'' council. Between 1835 and 1850, they had five children which includes two out of those five children became ''asantehenes'' and one later became ''asantehemaa''. After the death of her husband, Kofi Nti, Afua married Boakye Tenten, who was also a council member, however, they had no further children. Therefore, her descendants held their key pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afua Osei
Afua Osei is an entrepreneur, investor and public speaker who co-founded ''She Leads Africa'', a media company for millennial African women. Early life and education Born in Washington, DC, Osei spent her formative years in Prince George's County, Maryland. Osei graduated cum laude from Allegheny College with degrees in Political Science and was the first student to design their own major in Black Studies. She received the Faculty Prize for the Best Interdisciplinary Senior Thesis and the Ray Smock Political Science Prize for promise in local and state politics In 2013, she graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Harris School of Public Policy Studies with a Master of Business Administration and Master of Public Policy. Career After graduating from college, Osei participated in the Campaign Corps Fellowship, a comprehensive Democratic campaign training program, covering all aspects of running a successful political campaign sponsored b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Afuakwah
Charles Afuakwah (born 27 June 1966 in Ghana) is a Ghanaian-born Scottish former rugby union player who played for Glasgow Rugby, now Glasgow Warriors at the Lock position. Rugby Union career Amateur career Before professionalism he played for Glasgow Academicals RFC. He played for newly merged team Glasgow Hawks from 1997 while he still played with the professional Glasgow side. Provincial and professional career He played for the provincial Glasgow District side before it became professional as Glasgow Warriors. When the provincial side professionalised in 1996, Afuakwah was the starting Lock in Glasgow's European Rugby Challenge Cup match against French side AS Montferrand. He has the Glasgow Warrior No. 24. Afuakwah played for Glasgow in the European Cup matches against Ulster Rugby and London Wasps in season 1997-98. Glasgow won against Ulster Rugby but was beaten by Wasps. He left Glasgow to solely play for amateur side Glasgow Hawks RFC Glasgow Haw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afua Kuma
Afua Kuma (1908 – 1987) was a Ghanaian oral theologian. Biography Afua Kuma was born in Obo Kwahu in the Eastern Region of Ghana. In her childhood, she helped her parents in farming and trading and did not go to school. Although she was brought up in the Presbyterian church, where her father was an elder, in her later life she attended a local Catholic Church before joining the Church of Pentecost. Though she was illiterate, she was well-versed in her mother tongue of Twi Twi () is a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by several million people, mainly of the Akan people, the largest of the seventeen major ethnic groups in Ghana. Twi has about 17-18 million speakers in total, includ ... and became known for the oral theology in her prayers and songs. Works * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuma, Afua 1908 births 1987 deaths Ghanaian theologians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akan Names
The Akan people of Ghana frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born. These "day names" have further meanings concerning the soul and character of the person. Middle names have considerably more variety and can refer to their birth order, twin status, or an ancestor's middle name. This naming tradition is shared throughout West Africa and the African diaspora. During the 18th–19th centuries, enslaved people in the Caribbean from the region that is modern-day Ghana were referred to as Coromantees. Many of the leaders of enslaved people's rebellions had "day names" including Cuffy, Cuffee or Kofi, Cudjoe or Kojo, Quao or Quaw, and Quamina or Kwame/Kwamina. Most Ghanaians have at least one name from this system, even if they also have an English or Christian name. Notable figures with day names include Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah and former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In the official or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ama (given Name)
Ama is an Akan feminine given name originating from the Akan people following their day naming system, meaning "born on Saturday". Day names are a cultural practice of the Akan people of Ghana. It is practised by all the subgroups of the Akan people (i.e. Ashanti, Akuapem, Akyem, Fante) who follow traditional customs. People born on particular days are supposed to exhibit the characteristics or attributes and philosophy, associated with the days. Ama has the appellation "Nyamewa" or "Adoma" meaning creation or grace. Origin and meaning of Ama In the Akan culture, day names are known to be derived from deities. Ama is originated from Koyame the Akan Day name of God. Females born on Saturday tend to be talented, wise and problem solvers. Female variants of Ama The Akan people in Ghana have so many ways of calling or naming their female child born on Saturday. For instance, the Fantes call a female child born on Saturday Ewurama, Ama or Amba. Male version of Ama In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afuʻalo Matoto
ʻOtenifi Afuʻalo Matoto, styled Lord Matoto of Tuʻanekivale, is a Tongan civil servant, politician and former Cabinet Minister. He was Minister of Finance in the government of Feleti Sevele from 2008 to 2011. Early life Having obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Auckland, he became an assistant teacher at the Tonga High School in 1968. He later obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of Durham in 1971, and was appointed Assistant Secretary at the Tongan Ministry of Finance that same year. He was Secretary of Finance from 1977 to 1983, then became the Bank of Tonga's Manager for Development and Planning. From 1999 to 2006, he was Managing Director of the Tonga Development Bank. Matoto was also Treasurer of the Tonga Rugby Football Union from 1975 to 1982, and Chairman of the TRFU Referees Association "from the early 80s to the early 90s". He is the current President of the Nuku'alofa Rotary Club, of which he has been a member since 1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
