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Felicia Abban (born 1935), photographer; Ghana's first female professional photographer; Betty Acquah (born 1965), painter of feminist themes; Frances Ademola (born 1928), artist, gallery owner, and former broadcaster; she had also lived in Nigeria; Dorothy Amenuke (born 1968), sculptor, fiber artist, and educator; Anita-Pearl Ankor, painter ...
Nana Oforiatta Ayim, art historian, curator, filmmaker, writer; Ghanaian-born and has lived in England and Germany; Ataa Oko (c. 1919 –2012), sculptor, builder of figurative palanquins, and figurative fantasy coffins; Theodosia Okoh (1922–2015), teacher and designer of Ghana's national flag
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. Notable figures with day names include Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
David Anumle Hansen, Ghana Navy Chief of Naval Staff; Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, lieutenant general; commissioned as a lieutenant in 1954 and seconded to the British army on the Rhine; Rosamond Asiamah Nkansah (born 1930), first Ghanaian policewoman; Jerry Rawlings, former president of the Republic of Ghana and Ghana Air Force fighter pilot
[5] [6] The family name (surname) are always given after close relatives and sometimes friends. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Since Ashanti names are always given by the men, if a couple receives a son as their first born-baby then the son is named after the father of the husband and if the baby is a girl then she will be named after the mother of the husband.
In June 2019, she said in an interview with Newsday BBC that she hoped for the opening of a national art gallery in Ghana. [5] Acquah has exhibited in Ghana, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, India, Germany, Spain, Japan and the United States of America. [4] Her work highlights the Ghanaian women she sees as the "unsung heroes of the republic of Ghana".
List of Ghanaian women writers This page was last edited on 26 June 2022, at 19:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Lists of Ghanaian women (5 P) S. ... Pages in category "Lists of Ghanaian people" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.