Kwame

Kwame

Infobox Given name 2
name = Kwame


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name day = Saturday
region = Ghana
origin = Twi
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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, a former 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.


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