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Rita Akoto Coker (born 1953) is a Ghanaian American writer, primarily of romance novels. She has published five books, including the 2001 novel Serwah, the Saga of an African Princess. [1] [2] Her father, Baffour Osei Akoto, was the founder of Ghana's National Liberation Movement. [1] [3]
Rita Akoto Coker was born in 1953 in Ghana. [4] [5] Her parents were Helena Osei Akoto and Baffour Osei Akoto, a prominent member of the pre-independence National Liberation Movement and a chief linguist at the Manhyia Palace. Her brother, Owusu Afriyie Akoto, is a Ghanaian politician with the New Patriotic Party. [1] [3]
Coker migrated to the United States, where she lives in Chicago and works as a marketing consultant. [5] She began writing romance novels, publishing her first book, Serwah: The Saga of an African Princess, in 2001. [1] She has since released four more books, including The Lost Princess and its sequel, Fate's Promise. While Coker is based in the U.S., her books have been primarily released by Ghanaian publishers including Afram Publications and Kwadwoan Publishing Company. [6]
She has also regularly contributed to the Chicago-based magazine African Spectrum. [5]
Opoku Ware School, often referred to as OWASS, is a public Catholic senior high school for boys, located in Santasi, a suburb of Kumasi, which is the capital of the Ashanti region of Ghana.
St. Augustine’s College is an all-male boarding academic institution in Cape Coast, Ghana. The school started at Amissano, a village near Elmina, in 1930. The Roman Catholic institution was established to serve as a training college and seminary. The school was named after St. Augustine of Hippo. The motto of the college is Omnia Vincit Labor, meaning "Perseverance conquers All". The school has a total of 11 houses.
Wendela Kilmer is a popular globetrotting writer of over 33 romance novels since 1979 as Karen Van der Zee. She also signed two novels as Mona Van Wieren, and she received a RITA for Rhapsody in Bloom.
The Ghana national U-17 football team, known as the Black Starlets, is the youngest team that represents Ghana in football. They are two-time FIFA U-17 World Cup Champions in 1991 and 1995 and a two-time Runner-up in 1993 and 1997. Ghana has participated in nine of the 17 World Cup events starting with their first in Scotland 1989 through dominating the competition in the 1990s where at one time they qualified for 4 consecutive World Cup finals in Italy 1991, Japan 1993, Ecuador 1995 and Egypt 1997 to their most recent participation in South Korea 2007 where they lost in the World Cup Semi-finals 1–2 to Spain in extra time.
Konongo Odumase Senior High School is a coeducational second-cycle institution at Konongo-Odumase in the Asante Akim Central District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
Hon. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful is a Ghanaian lawyer, women's rights activist, and a parliamentarian representing Ablekuma West Constituency. She is currently the Minister of Communications and Digitalisation.
Ghanaian Canadians are Canadians of full or partial Ghanaian ancestry. Ghanaians who became naturalized citizens of Canada preferably refer to themselves as Ghanaian Canadians.
Owusu Afriyie Akoto is a Ghanaian agricultural economist and politician. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and was a Member of Parliament for the Kwadaso Constituency from 2009 to 2017. He is currently the cabinet minister in the Nana Akufo-Addo administration and as the Minister of Food and Agriculture of Ghana and he resigned on 10 January 2023 to concentrate on his presidential ambition. He holds MSc and PHD Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Cambridge, England.
Bafuor Osei Akoto (1904-2002) was a Ghanaian agriculturalist, traditional ruler and politician. He was the founder and leader of the National Liberation Movement. He was a linguist of the Asantehene and resided in the Manhyia Palace 9 in Kumasi.
Samiu Kwadwo Nuamah is a Ghanaian academic, engineer, and politician. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and the incumbent Member of Parliament for the Kwadaso Constituency.
George Yaw Gyan-Baffour is a Ghanaian development economist and politician. He is a former Member of Parliament who represented Wenchi constituency from 2005 to 2021. He was a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., from 1993 to 2001. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and the former Minister of Planning in Ghana.
Cecilia Abena Dapaah is a Ghanaian politician. She is a member of the New Patriotic Party and a former Member of Parliament for the Bantama constituency. She served as the deputy Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, and Minister for Aviation and Santitation and Water Resources respectively.
Bryan Acheampong is a Ghanaian politician and Member of Parliament of Abetifi constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party of Ghana. He succeeded Peter Wiafe Pepera, who died while in office. He was the Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior between February 2019 to 2020. In 2016, he bought Okwawu United F.C. and currently serves as the Minister of Agriculture.
Kwaku Baah is a Ghanaian lawyer and a politician. He was a deputy minister in the second republic, the minority leader in the third republic and vice chairman of the National Democratic Congress in the fourth republic. He also served as a member of parliament for Nkawkaw Constituency in the second and third Republic of Ghana.
Osei Hyiaman Owusu Afriyie was a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He was as a minister of state during the first republic. He served in various ministerial portfolios, some of which include serving as Minister of Labour and Social Welfare and also serving as Minister of Health.He became the Omanhene of Adankraja in the Ashanti region Ghana in 1972 reigning until 1999 when he passed on
James Edusei Sarkodie is a Ghanaian politician who served as a member of parliament for the Atwima Nwabiagya constituency from 1997 to 2005.
Konadu Yaadom, also Kwadu Yaadom was the fourth Asantehemaa of the Asante, whose multiple marriages and spiritual influence meant that she became an important and powerful ruler in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Samuel Nuamah Donkor was a Ghanaian politician and social worker. He was a Minister for Health, Minister for Ashanti Region and a member of the first parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana representing New Juaben North constituency under the membership of the National Convention Party (NCP).
Sandra Owusu-Ansah is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serbian Women's Super League side ZFK Spartak Subotica and the Ghana women's national football team. She represented Ghana at the U17 level at two World Cups in 2014 and 2016, serving as the captain in the latter whilst representing them at the U20 level at two World Cups in 2016 and 2018.
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