Kwaku (disambiguation)
Appearance
(Redirected from Kweku)
Kwaku, alternatively Kweku, is an Ashanti given name to Ashanti male children born on Wednesday from the Ashanti people ethnic group.
Kwaku and Kweku may refer to:
People
[edit]Kwaku
[edit]- Kwaku Alston, American photographer
- Kwaku Bediako (born 1986), Ghanaian fashion designer
- Kwaku Boateng (athlete) (born 1974), Canadian high jumper
- Kwaku Boateng (politician) (died 2006), cabinet minister in Ghana in the early 1960s
- Kwaku Dua I Panyin, or Barima Fredua Agyeman, (c. 1797–1867), eighth King of the Ashanti Empire from 1834 until death in 1867
- Kwaku Dua III Asamu or Prempeh I (1870–1931), thirteenth King of the Ashanti Empire from 1888 until his death in 1931
- Kwaku Fortune, Irish actor
- Kwaku Gyasi, Ghanaian gospel singer
- Kwaku Kwarteng (born 1969), Ghanaian civil engineer, economist, and politician
- Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, Ghanaian journalist
- Kwaku Sintim-Misa aka KSM (born 1956), Ghanaian actor, director, satirist, talk show host and author
- Quock Walker (1753-after 1781), also called Kwaku, American slave of Ghanaian descent
- Kwaku Walker Lewis (1798–1856), African-American abolitionist and active member of the Underground Railroad and the anti-slavery movement
Middle name
[edit]- B. Kwaku Duren (born 1943); aka Robert Donaldson Duren and Bob D. Duren, controversial African American lawyer, educator, writer, editor, Black Panther, long-time social, political and community activist
- Edward Kwaku Utuka, major general of the Ghana Armed Forces
- Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, suspect in the investigation into the 21 July 2005 London bombings
- Nana Kwaku Bonsam (born 1973), Ghanaian witch doctor and fetish priest
- Papa Kwaku Oppong (born 1987), Canadian basketball player
- Rebop Kwaku Baah, (1944–1983), Ghanaian percussionist best known for working with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can
- Thomas Kwaku Mensah (1935–2016), Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kumasi, Ghana
Kweku
[edit]- Kweku Adoboli (born 1980), Ghanaian ex-trader known for his role in the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal and convicted of fraud in 2012
- Chief Kweku Andoh (1836–1898), military officer in the British army and Regent of Edina State (1873-1898)
- Kweku Baako Jnr, Ghanaian journalist and editor
- Kweku Essien (born 1984), Ghanaian football (soccer) player
- Philip Quaque (1741–1816), birth name Kweku, first African ordained in the Church of England
Literature
[edit]- Kwaku; or, the Man Who Could Not Keep His Mouth Shut, a 1982 novel by Guyanese writer Roy A. K. Heath