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Kwesi Ameyaw
Kwesi is a Ghanaian male given name. In the Ghanaian tradition of "day names", it refers to children born on a Sunday. Notable people with this name include: * Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu, Togolese politician * Kwesi Ahwoi (born 1946), Ghanaian politician * Kwesi Akomia Kyeremateng, Ghanaian politician * Kwesi Akwansah Andam (1946–2007), Ghanaian academic * Kwesi Amissah-Arthur (1951–2018), Ghanaian economist, academic and politician * Kwesi Amoako Atta (born 1951), Ghanaian lawyer, management consultant and politician * Kwesi Amoako-Atta (1920–1983), Ghanaian banker and politician * Kwesi Appiah (born 1990), Ghanaian football player * Kwesi Armah (1929–2006), Ghanaian politician and diplomat * Kwesi Arthur (born 1994), Ghanaian musician * Kwesi Boakye (born 1999), American actor, voice actor and singer * Kwesi Botchwey (born 1944), Ghanaian politician * Kwesi Brew (1928–2007), Ghanaian poet and diplomat * Kwesi Browne (born 31 January 1994), Trinidad and Tobago male track cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghanaian Name
Ghanaian names (or personal names in Ghana) consist of several given names and surnames based on the language of ethnic groups in Ghana: including Akan, Mole-Dagombas, Ga, Ewe and Nzema. Frequently, children are given a "day name" which corresponds to the day in the week when 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. These names are also used among Ghanaians living abroad and among Africans living in the diaspora who wish to identify with their ancestral homeland. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the enslaved people from modern day Ghana in the Caribbean were referred to as Coromantees. Most day names among the Mole-Dagombas are usually given to girls, and few are given to both sexes. Most Ghanaians have at least one name from this system, even if they also have an Arabic or western name. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwesi Brew
Osborne Henry Kwesi Brew (27 May 1928 – 30 July 2007) was a Ghanaian poet and diplomat. Biography Brew was born in Cape Coast, Ghana, to a Fante family in 1928. He was brought up by a British guardian—education officer, K. J. Dickens—after his parents died. He was one of the first graduates from the University College of the Gold Coast in 1951. While still a student, Brew participated in college literary activities and experimented with prose, poetry, and drama. After graduation he won a British Council poetry competition in Accra, and his poems appeared in the Ghanaian literary journal ''Okyeame'', as well as several important African anthologies. ''Shadows of Laughter'' (1968), a collection of his best early poems, reveals a thematic interest unusual for an Ghanaian poet: the value of the individual compared with that of society as a whole. In poems such as "The Executioner's Dream", which views with something like horror some of the rituals of traditional Ghanaian soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwesi Slay
Bernard Appiah (born 10 June 1990), known by his stage name Kwesi Slay, is a Ghanaian hip hop recording artist and entertainer. He is from Ashaiman-Tema. Kwesi Slay is known for his 2018 single 'Seven'. Career Slay began to gain mainstream recognition when he released his first single "3y3 norma"featuring Yaa Pono in 2015. He released “Street Ways” and” Wedi Bet” in 2017. On July 8, 2018, Kwesi's first EP ''Aben'', was released. In December 2018, Slay released his fourth single, ”Follow Me”, featuring VGMA's high life artist of the year Kuami Eugene Eugene Kwame Marfo (born 1 February 1997), who goes by the stage name Kuami Eugene is a Ghanaian High-life and Afrobeat singer-songwriter. He is signed to Lynx Entertainment, and is known for several songs, including "Angela", "Wish Me Well", .... Awards and nominations Muse Africa Awards 3 Music Awards References 1998 births Living people Ghanaian musicians Ghanaian rappers {{Ghana-bio-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwesi Sinclair
Kwesi Lee Sinclair (born 26 October 1978) is a Guyanese-born former British Virgin Islands cricketer. Sinclair was a right-handed batsman. In February 2008, the British Virgin Islands were invited to take part in the 2008 Stanford 20/20, whose matches held official Twenty20 status. Sinclair made a single appearance in the tournament against Dominica in a preliminary round defeat, with Sinclair being dismissed for 9 runs by Liam Sebastien. References External linksKwesi Sinclairat ESPNcricinfo ESPN cricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a ...Kwesi Sinclairat CricketArchive 1978 births Living people Guyanese cricketers British Virgin Islands cricketers Guyanese emigrants to the British Virgin Islands {{Guyana-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwesi Pratt Jnr
Kwesi Pratt Jnr (born 7 September 1953) is a Ghanaian journalist and managing editor of the ''Insight'' Newspaper. Kwesi was a member of ''Alliance for Change'', the organisers of the 1995 Kume Preko anti-government demonstration. He is the founder and owner of Pan African Television network in Ghana. Politics Kwesi Pratt is a Convention People's Party (CPP) member and has occupied many roles in the party, including his appointment in 2006 as the Publicity committee chairman of the party. In 2020, he appealed to government to instill fear into the public to reduce the impact of COVID-19 pandemic since the disease was present, killing people. Kwesi Pratt Jnr continues to put Ghanaian government(s) on their toes, even till date. He recently challenged the wisdom of government giving up Ghana's gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwesi Prah
Kwesi Kwaa Prah (born 1942, Kumasi) is an author, public speaker, and a Sociology professor, who was born in Ghana and has been based in southern Africa since the 1980s. He is the author of several books, including ''Beyond The Color Line'' (1997). He has also published many articles revolving around the topics of Africa's history and what is to come in Africa's future, as well as speaking and writing on issues such as the education system and social reforms. He is vocal about the race issues in society, speaking publicly and challenging government actions. He is the founder and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS). He has worked in a number of universities in Africa, Europe and Asia, researching and teaching Sociology and Anthropology. Early life Prah was born in Ghana, and grew up there until the age of 18, when in the early 1960s he went to Leiden University in the Netherlands to study sociology. He went on to attend the University of Amste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwesi Plange
Kwesi Plange (1926 – 1953) was a Ghanaian politician and educationist, He was a founding member of the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the first headmaster of Ghana National College. Career and politics He was a teacher of St. Augustine's College in Cape Coast; his teaching appointment was terminated by the colonial government based on recommendations of the Quarshie-Idun Commission, the commission was set up to investigate the protest of students in Cape Coast schools following the detention in 1948 of "The Big Six". Together with three other teachers, they founded the Ghana National College and Plange become the college's first headteacher from 1948 to 1950. Plange was active in the politics of the Gold Coast, he was a member of the United Gold Coast Convention. When Kwame Nkrumah founded the Convention People's Party on 12 June 1949, he joined the convention and was a member of its first Central Committee. In 1951, he was elected to the legislative assembly to repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwesi Nyantakyi
Kwesi Nyantakyi is a Ghanaian banker, lawyer and former football administrator. He was the president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) from 30 December 2005 until 7 June 2018. Nyantakyi officially resigned a day later. However, four hours to the release of his resignation letter FIFA had issued a statement announcing his ban from all football related activities for a period of 90 days pending investigations. Circumstances surrounding his resignation include a video released by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in which Nyantakyi was found taking a bribe and purporting to have the ability to "take over the whole country". In an interview with Super Sports South Africa a few days after the video of the investigation was slated to go public, Nyantakyi denied any wrongdoing regarding match fixing. On 30 October 2018 FIFA officially issued a statement that officially bans Kwesi Nantakyi from football related activities for life. In October 2020, the ban was reduce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson (born 24 August 1952), also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist. In 2002 he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. His performance poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican patois over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with reggae producer/artist Dennis Bovell. Early life Johnson was born in Chapelton, a small town in the rural parish of Clarendon, Jamaica. His middle name, "Kwesi", is a Ghanaian name that is given to boys who, like Johnson, are born on a Sunday. In 1963 he and his father came to live in Brixton, London, joining his mother, who had immigrated to Britain as part of the Windrush generation shortly before Jamaican independence in 1962. Johnson attended Tulse Hill School in Lambeth. While still at school he joined the British Black Panther Movement, helped to organise a poetry workshop within the movement, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwesi Dickson
Kwesi Abotsia Dickson (7 July 1929 – 28 October 2005) was a Ghanaian Christian theologian. He was the seventh President of the Methodist Church Ghana and a professor at the University of Ghana, Legon. Early life and education Kwesi Dickson was born at Saltpond in the Central Region of Ghana. He was educated at the Mfantsipim School at Cape Coast. He completed his basic ministerial training at the Trinity Theological Seminary (then Trinity College in Kumasi) in 1951. He then attended the University of Ghana, then the University College of the Gold Coast. Next he went to the United Kingdom where his postgraduate education was at Mansfield College, Oxford at Oxford University. Career Dickson was ordained into the ministry of the Methodist Church of Ghana at the British Methodist Conference of 1957. He served in various capacities at the University of Ghana over three decades until 1989. He has been the Head of the Department for the Study of Religions, Dean of the Facult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwesi Browne
Kwesi Browne (born 31 January 1994) is a Trinidad and Tobago male track cyclist, representing Trinidad and Tobago at international competitions. He won the bronze medal in the keirin at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games and also at the 2016 Pan American Track Cycling Championships. He is currently training at the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, Switzerland in the lead up to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan for which he has qualified to represent Trinidad and Tobago in his pet event, the Keirin. References External links * 1994 births Living people Trinidad and Tobago male cyclists Trinidad and Tobago track cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Trinidad and Tobago Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Trinidad and Tobago C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwesi Botchwey
Kwesi Botchwey (13 September 1942 – 19 November 2022) was a Ghanaian government official and Professor of Practice in Development Economics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. Botchwey was Minister for Finance and Economic Planning from 1982 to 1995. He was appointed by Jerry Rawlings to assist in stabilizing Ghana's collapsed economy. Education Botchwey received his secondary school education at the Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School and attended St. Augustine's College. Botchwey held an LL.B. from the University of Ghana, a LL.M from Yale Law School, and a doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School. He taught at the University of Zambia, the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and the University of Ghana. Other notable previous assignments * Advisor to the World Bank on the 1997 World Development Report * Member and Chairman of IMF's Group of Independent Experts who conducted the first ever external evaluation of the Enhanced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
