Kwaku
Kwaku (Kweku, Kuuku, Korku, Kɔku, Kouakou), is an Akan given name for male children born on Wednesday to the Akan and Ewe ethnic groups. Historically, Akan birthday names are associated with appellations that give an indication of the charact ...
, alternatively Kweku, is an Ashanti
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
to Ashanti male children born on Wednesday from the Ashanti people ethnic group.
Kwaku and Kweku may refer to:
People
Kwaku
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Kwaku Alston
Kwaku Alston is an American photographer. His editorial work has been featured in ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Time'', ''Men’s Health'', ''Essence'', and ''Men’s Journal,'' among many others. He has photographed ads f ...
, American photographer
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Kwaku Bediako
Kwaku Bediako (born 7 May 1986) is a Ghanaian contemporary fashion designer and founder of ''Chocolate Clothing.''
Early life and education
Kwaku attended University of Ghana Primary School Legon, then proceeded to Mfantsipim School in Cape Co ...
(born 1986), Ghanaian fashion designer
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Kwaku Boateng (athlete) (born 1974), Canadian high jumper
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Kwaku Boateng (politician)
Kwaku Boateng (c. 1926 – 1 May 2006) was a Ghanaian politician and barrister who was a state minister in the First Republic.
Early life and education
Boateng was born to Opanin Acheampong and Madam Anima Acheampong of Old Tafo in the Akyem ...
(died 2006), cabinet minister in Ghana in the early 1960s
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Kwaku Dua I Panyin
Kwaku Dua Panin (born Fredua Agyeman; – 27 April 1867) was the eighth Asantehene of the Ashanti Empire from 25 August 1834 until his death.
Early life
Prince Kwaku Dua took part in the fighting against the Gyaman, a state north of Kum ...
, or Barima Fredua Agyeman, (c. 1797–1867), eighth King of the Ashanti Empire from 1834 until death in 1867
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Kwaku Dua III Asamu or Prempeh I (1870–1931), thirteenth King of the Ashanti Empire from 1888 until his death in 1931
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Kwaku Fortune
Kwaku Fortune is an Irish actor.
Early life and education
Fortune is from Roundwood, County Wicklow. He is of Ghanaian descent on his mother's side. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Acting from The Lir Academy at Trinity College Dublin ...
, Irish actor
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Kwaku Gyasi, Ghanaian gospel singer
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Kwaku Kwarteng
Kwaku Agyemang Kwarteng (born February 12, 1969) is a Ghanaian civil engineer, economist, and politician. He is a two term Member of Parliament for Obuasi West constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He is a member of Ghana's New Patriot ...
(born 1969), Ghanaian civil engineer, economist, and politician
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Kwaku Sakyi-Addo
Kwaku Addo Sakyi-Addo is a journalist from Ghana, who was the country correspondent for both Reuters and the BBC between 1993 and 2007. He currently hosts a political talk show on Asaase Radio in Accra.
Education
Kwaku Sakyi Addo received his el ...
, Ghanaian journalist
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Kwaku Sintim-Misa
Kwaku Sintim-Misa aka "KSM" (born 1956) is a Ghanaian actor, director, satirist, talk show host, and author. He also has his own shows on radio and television. He is the host of The KSM Show.
Early life
KSM was born the fifth of six siblings on ...
aka KSM (born 1956), Ghanaian actor, director, satirist, talk show host and author
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Quock Walker
Quock Walker, also known as Kwaku or Quork Walker (1753 – ?), was an American slavery, slave who sued for and won his freedom in June 1781 in a case citing language in the new Massachusetts Constitution (1780) that declared all men to be born fr ...
(1753-after 1781), also called Kwaku, American slave of Ghanaian descent
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Kwaku Walker Lewis (1798–1856), African-American abolitionist and active member of the Underground Railroad and the anti-slavery movement
Middle name
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B. Kwaku Duren
B. Kwaku Duren (born April 14, 1943; a.k.a., Robert Donaldson Duren and Bob D. Duren) is a controversial African American former lawyer, educator, writer, editor, Black Panther, long-time social, political and community activist; and a former ...
(born 1943); aka Robert Donaldson Duren and Bob D. Duren, controversial African American lawyer, educator, writer, editor, Black Panther, long-time social, political and community activist
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Edward Kwaku Utuka, major general of the Ghana Armed Forces
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Manfo Kwaku Asiedu
On Thursday, 21 July 2005, four attempted bomb attacks by Islamist extremists disrupted part of London's public transport system as a follow up attack from the 7 July 2005 London bombings that occurred two weeks earlier. The explosions occur ...
, suspect in the investigation into the
21 July 2005 London bombings
On Thursday, 21 July 2005, four attempted bomb attacks by Islamist extremists disrupted part of London's public transport system as a follow up attack from the 7 July 2005 London bombings that occurred two weeks earlier. The explosions occur ...
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Nana Kwaku Bonsam
Nana Kwaku Bonsam (born 20 August 1973), whose name, "Bonsam" translates literally as "Devil", is a well known Ghanaian witch doctor and fetish priest.
Bonsam gained international notoriety when he claimed to put a voodoo curse on the Portugues ...
(born 1973), Ghanaian witch doctor and fetish priest
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Papa Kwaku Oppong
Papa Kwaku Oppong (born March 10, 1987) is a Canadian former professional basketball player in the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL). He is currently a teacher at an unknown school in Ontario. Oppong competed with three different colle ...
(born 1987), Canadian basketball player
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Rebop Kwaku Baah
Anthony "Rebop" Kwaku Baah (13 February 1944 – 12 January 1983) was a Ghanaian percussionist who worked with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can.
Biography
Baah was born on 13 February 1944, in Konongo, Gold Coast.
In 1969, Baah performe ...
, (1944–1983), Ghanaian percussionist best known for working with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can
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Thomas Kwaku Mensah Thomas Kwaku Mensah (2 February 1935 – 10 April 2016) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kumasi, Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of ...
(1935–2016), Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kumasi, Ghana
Kweku
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Kweku Adoboli (born 1980), Ghanaian ex-trader known for his role in the
2011 UBS rogue trader scandal
The 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal caused a loss of over US$2 billion at Swiss bank UBS, as a result of unauthorized trading performed by Kweku Adoboli, a director of the bank's Global Synthetic Equities Trading team in London in early September ...
and convicted of fraud in 2012
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Kweku Andoh Kwaku, alternatively Kweku, is an Ashanti given name to Ashanti male children born on Wednesday from the Ashanti people ethnic group.
Kwaku and Kweku may refer to:
People
Kwaku
* Kwaku Alston, American photographer
* Kwaku Bediako (born 198 ...
(1836–1898), military officer in the British army and Regent of Edina State (1873-1898)
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Kweku Baako Jnr
Kweku Baako Jnr is a Ghanaian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the ''New Crusading Guide'' newspaper he was also the son of Kofi baako . He is a frequent panelist on radio shows in Ghana, including Peace FM's weekday morning show and Newsf ...
, Ghanaian journalist and editor
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Kweku Essien
Kweku Essien (born 12 December 1984 in Kumasi) is a Ghanaian football player who is currently playing for Eleven Wise of the Globacom Premier League. Essien is variable in the midfield, he can play as attacking or defensive midfielder.
Care ...
(born 1984), Ghanaian football (soccer) player
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Philip Quaque
Philip Quaicoe (1741 – 17 October 1816) was the first African to be ordained as a minister by the Church of England.
Biography
Born in Cape Coast then known as (Gold Coast) and named Kweku, he was said to be the son of Birempong Cudjo, a ca ...
(1741–1816), birth name Kweku, first African ordained in the Church of England
Literature
* ''Kwaku; or, the Man Who Could Not Keep His Mouth Shut'', a 1982 novel by Guyanese writer
Roy A. K. Heath
Roy Aubrey Kelvin Heath (13 August 1926 – 14 May 2008) was a Guyana, Guyanese writer who settled in the UK, where he lived for five decades, working as a schoolteacher as well as writing. His 1978 novel ''The Murderer (Roy Heath novel), The M ...
See also
{{Disambiguation, Given name