Kwame
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Kwame |
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Gender | male |
Region of Origin | Ghana |
Origin | Twi |
Name day | Saturday |
Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Kwame |
Kwame or Kwamé is a Twi and Akan day name and a given name for a boy born on a Saturday, originating in Ghana.
- Osei Kwame Panyin - 18th century leader of the Ashanti Confederacy, located in what is today southern and central Ghana
- Kwame Nkrumah - a Ghanaian politician and for a time Life President (originally Francis Nwia-Kofi Ngonloma) and one of the most influential founders of Pan-Africanism.
- Kwame Ture - name adopted by Stokely Carmichael, a Trinidadian-American Black activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party to honor Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sékou Touré
- Kwame M. Kilpatrick, the Mayor of Detroit, Michigan
- Kwame Anthony Appiah - a Ghanaian-British philosopher of semantics and racism
- Kwame Jackson - one of the two final candidates on Donald Trump's American television reality series The Apprentice.
- Kwame Kwei-Armah - a British actor and presenter
- Kwame Brown - an American basketball player in the NBA
- Kwame (Captain Planet character), a character in the television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers
- Kwamé - Kwamé Holland, an American rapper who enjoyed brief popularity during the golden age of hip hop; reemerged as a music producer named K1 Million
- Kwame Tucker- Bermudan cricketer
- Kwame Raoul -Kwame Raoul is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since his appointment in 2004.
- Kwame Bosompem Manu- a justice studies student at the University of Ontario intitute of technology.