Kwame

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Kwame or Kwamé is a Twi and Akan day name given to a boy born on a Saturday, originating in Ghana. People with this name include:

• Osei Kwame Panyin, an 18th-century leader of the Ashanti Confederacy, located in what is today southern and central Ghana
• Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian-British philosopher of semantics and racism
• Kwame Brown, an American basketball player in the NBA
• 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 Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit, Michigan
• 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 Raoul, a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since 2004
• Kwame Somburu, an American socialist political activist
• Kwame Tucker, a Bermudan cricketer
• Kwame Ture, the 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

In addition:

• Kwame (Captain Planet), a character in the television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers

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