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Akua was born on 19 July 1971 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. [1] [2] The daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, she and her family moved to the United States when she was 11 years old. [2] Akua studied business and finance at university. [2]
Margaret Yvonne Busby, CBE, Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK.She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisher [1] [2] when she and Clive Allison (1944–2011) co-founded [3] the London-based publishing house Allison and Busby (A & B) in the 1960s. [4]
Oheneba Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware is the daughter of Victoria (née Victoria Nana Akua Afiiriyie Bando) and Otumfuo Opoku Ware II, the 15th King of the Ashanti Kingdom hence the prefix of her name, "Oheneba". [2] Both of her parents were from Ashanti royalty; they married in 1945. [3] Lesley is the youngest daughter of the Asantehene.
[1] [2] [3] [5] He was the son of Nana Yaw Darko, the linguist of the paramount chief and Nana Akua Korantema. [16] Yaw Darko was a practitioner of the Akan traditional religion and died when Theophilus was young. Opoku's grandfather was the paramount chief of Akropong, Omanhene, Nana Addo Dankwa.
The dynastic list by modern historians does not follow that established by the representatives of the Oyoko clan.. The revised chronology and the study of Dutch colonial archives has made it possible for the identification of Asantehemaa Akyaama, who was banished from the throne following a dynastic conflict, and further erased from oral tradition.
Nana Akua Addo is a German-born Ghanaian model, actress, and film producer. She was the second runner-up in Miss Malaika 2003 and the winner of Miss Ghana-Germany in 2005. [ 1 ] She has received awards, including the Glitz Style Awards and City People Entertainment Awards .
Akyaaba Addai-Sebo (born October 1950) [1] is a Ghanaian analyst, journalist and pan-African activist credited with developing the recognition of October as Black History Month in 1987 in the UK. With Ansel Wong , Addai-Sebo co-edited the 1988 book Our Story: A Handbook of African History and Contemporary Issues . [ 2 ]
Asase has two differing descriptions and, thus, two different personalities. However, they are both one deity [6]. Asase Yaa: Asase Yaa is described as an old woman, linked to the other meaning of the name Asase Yaa; Old Mother Earth, and the other name Asase Yaa is known as, Aberewaa. [7]