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Afua (islet)
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 Efua Asibon was one of the three Ghanaians that won the Queen's Young Leader Award in 2017. She is an account manager for Facebook in Ireland the co-founder of Dislabelled, a non profit o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akan People
The Akan () people live primarily in present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast in West Africa. The Akan language (also known as ''Twi/Fante'') are a group of dialects within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo family.Languages of the Akan area: papers in Western Kwa linguistics and on the linguistic geography of the area of ancient. Isaac K. Chinebuah, H. Max J. Trutenau, Linguistic Circle of Accra, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1976, pp. 168. Subgroups of the Akan people include: the Agona, Akuapem, Akwamu, Akyem, Ashanti, Bono, Fante, Kwahu, Wassa, and Ahanta. The Akan subgroups all have cultural attributes in common; most notably the tracing of matrilineal descent, inheritance of property, and succession to high political office. Oral tradition and Ethnogenesis Akan people are believed to have migrated to their current location from the Sahara desert and Sahel regions of Africa into the forest region around the 11th century. Many Akans ... [...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] |
Bounty Hunter
A bounty hunter is a private agent working for bail bonds who captures fugitives or criminals for a commission or bounty. The occupation, officially known as bail enforcement agent, or fugitive recovery agent, has traditionally operated outside the legal constraints that govern police officers and other agents of the state. This is because a bail agreement between a defendant and a bail bondsman is essentially a civil contract that is incumbent upon the bondsman to enforce. As a result, bounty hunters hired by a bail bondsman enjoy significant legal privileges, such as forcibly entering a defendant's home without probable cause or a search warrant; however, since they are not police officers, bounty hunters are legally exposed to liabilities that normally exempt agents of the state—as these immunities enable police to perform their designated functions effectively without fear—and everyday citizens approached by a bounty hunter are neither required to answer their qu ... [...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] |
Efua Traoré
Efua Traoré is a Nigerian-German story writer. She won the regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018 and was nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2022. Life and career Traoré was born and raised in a small town in the south of Nigeria. She has also resided in France and Germany. She won the Africa regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story "''True Happiness''" in 2018. In 2019, her debut novel "''Children of the Quicksands''" won ''The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition''. The novel was also shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2022. She received the ''Munich Literaturreferat YA Literature grant'' 2019 for her German novel ''Die Hüter des Schlafes'' (The Guardians of Sleep). Books * ''Children of the Quicksands'' (2021) — a fantasy novel published by The Chicken House The Chicken House is a publishing company owned by Scholastic Corporation, specialising in children's fiction. Founded in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efua Sutherland
Efua Theodora Sutherland (born 27 June 1924 – 2 January 1996) was a Ghanaian playwright, director, dramatist, children's author, poet, educationalist, researcher, child advocate, and cultural activist. Her works include the plays ''Foriwa'' (1962), ''Edufa'' (1967), and ''The Marriage of Anansewa'' (1975). She founded the Ghana Drama Studio, the Ghana Society of Writers, the Ghana Experimental Theatre, and a community project called the Kodzidan (Story House). As the earliest Ghanaian playwright-director she was an influential figure in the development of modern Ghanaian theatre, and helped to introduce the study of African performance traditions at the university level. She was also a pioneering African publisher, establishing the company Afram Publications in Accra in the 1970s. She was a cultural advocate for children from the early 1950s until her death, and played a role in developing educational curricula, literature, theatre and film for and about Ghanaian children. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efua Dorkenoo
Efua Dorkenoo, OBE (6 September 1949 – 18 October 2014), affectionately known as "Mama Efua","Obituaries: Efua Dorkenoo" ''The Times'', 29 October 2014. was a ian-British campaigner against (FGM) who pioneered the global movement to end the practiceAlexandra Topping "Efua Dorkenoo OBE, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efua Baker
Efua Baker ( ; born c. 1967 in Ghana) is a British celebrity fitness expert and trainer who also had a music career in the 1990s. Career In 1993, Baker, then known as just Efua, released three singles: "Down Is the Drop", "Strawberry Boy", and "Somewhere". "Somewhere" was her biggest hit, reaching the top 50 in the UK, and the top 20 in Australia. "Strawberry Boy" charted on the US ''Billboard'' Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. An album, ''Dream Juice'', was released in June 1993 in the US, and in November 1993 in Australia. Prior to releasing her own music, Efua worked as a model and a dancer, and appeared in a number of music videos for other artists, including Clive Griffin's "The Way We Touch" and "Don't Make Me Wait", Lil Louis's "I Called U", Soul II Soul's "A Dreams a Dream" ''(sic)'', and one of the two videos filmed for Maxi Priest's " Close to You". In 1996, she appeared in Yazz's music video for "Good Thing Going". In 2019, Baker appeared in the music v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efua Asibon
Efua Asibon was one of the three Ghanaians that won the Queen's Young Leader Award in 2017. She is an account manager for Facebook in Ireland the co-founder of Dislabelled, a non profit organisation in Ghana that supports, empowers and educates people with disabilities. Education She holds a master's degree in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Upon receiving the Queen's Young Leader Award, she had the opportunity of being mentored and trained at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education in the UK. Awards and recognition * In 2017, she won the Queen's Young Leader Award *She won the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) Award in 2019 *She was listed as one of WomanRising's 100 Most Outstanding Women Entrepreneurs in Ghana See also * Queen's Young Leader Award Queen's Young Leader Award was an annual award given in recognition of leadership skills b ... [...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 Ca ... [...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] |
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] |
