Ghanaian Australians are Australian citizens and residents of
Ghanaian origin and descent. More than 50% of those who are Ghana-born live in Sydney.
Background
The Special Commonwealth African Assistance Plan allowed students from West African countries, including from Ghana, to come to Australia the mid-1960s. More than 70 per cent of these students remained in Australia following military coups in their countries. While small in number, the Ghana-born steadily increased from the mid-1970s following the easing of immigration restrictions.
The majority of Ghanaian Australians are skilled and educated, with 70.6% of the Ghana-born aged 15 years and over possessing higher non-school qualifications, compared to 55.9% of the Australian population.
Population
The 2011 Census noted there were 3,866 Ghana-born people in Australia.
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Ewe and
Ga all have many speakers in Australia. Akan has over 2,100 speakers and Ewe has over 400 speakers. Some of the over 10,700 Australian-born who speak an African language may also speak a Ghanaian language.
It was noted in 2014 that the Ghanaian student population in Australia (like the Nigerian one) was growing fast to the extent that Australian universities were keen to attract more students from Ghana.
African restaurants serving up Ghanaian specialties can be found in Sydney.
Ghanaian Australians
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Faustina Agolley – TV presenter and host
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Kwabena Appiah-Kubi – soccer player for
Western Sydney Wanderers
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Selasi Berdie
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– professional rugby league footballer for the
Gold Coast Titans
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Manu Crooks
Emmanuel Adu, better known by his stage name Manu Crooks, is a Ghanaian-Australian rapper based in Sydney.
Biography
Emmanuel Adu grew up in Ghana and moved to Australia when he was 12 years old where he attended Parramatta High School. He f ...
– rapper
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Kofi Danning – soccer player who has played for Australia internationally
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Dorinda Hafner
Dorinda Hafner (born 1947) is an Ghanaian-born Australian storyteller, actress, dancer, choreographer, public speaker, writer and television chef.
Early life
Hafner was born in 1947 in Ghana, when it was British crown colony called Ashanti (Cr ...
– celebrity chef, community activist and TV personality
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Nuala Hafner
Nuala Hafner is an Australian media personality of Ghanaian descent. She is also a clinical psychologist, psychologist.
Early life and education
Hafner was born in London, England, to Ghanaian-born Australian Dorinda Hafner. Her parents met i ...
– news reader and TV personality
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Citizen Kay
Citizen Kay is an Australian Canberra-based hip hop artist.
Citizen Kay's EP ''Demokracy'' was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Urban Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2015.
Citizen Kay's debut album, ''With the People'', was nominated the ...
– rapper
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Miracle – rapper
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Matt Okine
Matthew Okine (born 12 April 1985) is a stand-up comedian, author and radio presenter from Brisbane, Australia. Okine is of Ghanaian and European descent, born to his father, Mack Okine, and his mother Roslyn, who died of breast cancer when he w ...
– ''Triple J'' host, actor, comedian, ''
The Project'' regular; of Ghanaian descent
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Genesis Owusu – singer
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Isaac Quaynor
Isaac Quaynor (born 15 January 2000) is a professional Australian rules footballer with Ghanaian descent who plays for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Quaynor participated in the Auskick program ...
– AFL footballer
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Brandon Walker
Brandon Walker (born 17 October 2002) is an Australian rules football player who plays for Fremantle in the Australian Football League (AFL).
A member of Fremantle's Next Generation Academy (NGA) due to being born in Ghana, Walker was drafted ...
– AFL footballer
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Kwame Yeboah
Kwame Adzenyina Yeboah (born 2 June 1994) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Yeboah played youth football with the Queensland Academy of Sport and Gold Coast United before making his professional debut fo ...
– soccer player
References
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Ethnic groups in Australia
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
African Australian