Afua (, ) or Efua (, ) is an Akan day name traditionally given to girls born on a Friday; the equivalent male name is

Kofi Kofi is an Akan people, Akan masculine given name among the Akan people (such as the Bono people, Bono, Akyem, Akwamu, Ashanti people, Ashanti and Fante people, Fante) in Ghana that is given to a boy born on Friday. Traditionally in Ghana, a child ...

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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 Internationa ...

, Ghanaian pædiatric surgeon and former president of the Medical Women's International Association *

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� ...

, American engineer, data executive, professor, and politician *

Afua Cooper Afua Ava Pamela Cooper (born 8 November 1957) is a Jamaican-born Canadian historian. As a historian, "she has taught Caribbean cultural studies, history, women's studies and Black studies at Ryerson and York universities, at the University of ...

(born 1957), Canadian historian and dub poet, born in Jamaica *

Afua Hirsch Afua Hirsch Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (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 un ...

(born 1981), British writer, broadcaster, and former barrister, born in Norway *

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 ...

(fl. 1834–1884), of the Ashanti Empire *

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 brough ...

(1908–1987), Ghanaian oral theologian *

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 Cou ...

, American entrepreneur and public speaker, co-founder of She Leads Africa *

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 ...

(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 organisation in Ghana that supports, empowers and educates ...

, Ghanaian businesswoman *

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 ...

(born ), British singer-songwriter and celebrity fitness expert, born in Ghana *

Efua Dorkenoo Efua Dorkenoo, OBE (6 September 1949 – 18 October 2014), affectionately known as "Mama Efua",

(1949–2014), affectionately known as "Mama Efua", Ghanaian-British campaigner against female genital mutilation *

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' ...

(1924–1996), Ghanaian playwright, director, dramatist, children's author, poet, educationalist, researcher, child advocate, and cultural activist *

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 s ...

, Nigerian-German writer

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