Kwame
Kwame, Kwamé, Kouamé, Kwami, Kwamena, or Kwamina is a Twi and Akan day name given to a boy born on a Saturday, originating in Ghana. The most well-known bearer of the name was Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana and a founder of Pan-Africanism - mainly due to whom the name spread also to non-Ghanaians.
| Pronunciation | Kwah-mɪ |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Akan people |
| Meaning | born on a Saturday |
| Region of origin | Central,Western, Ashanti,Brong Ahafo,Eastern Volta, Ghana |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Kwamina, Kwamena |
People with this name include:
- Kwame (Australian rapper)
- Kwame Alexander, American author
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian-British philosopher of semantics and racism
- Kwame Awuah (born 1995), Canadian soccer player
- Kwame Brown, American former basketball player
- Kwame Dawes, Ghanaian poet currently living in America, managing editor of the Prairie Schooner literary journal
- Kwame Harris (born 1982), former American football player
- 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 Holman, American producer, correspondent, and congressional correspondent
- Kwame Kenyatta, an American politician
- Kwame Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit, Michigan
- Kwame Nkrumah (originally Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma), a Ghanaian politician (and for a time Life President) and one of the founders of Pan-Africanism
- Kwame Raoul, a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since 2004
- Kwame Somburu (Paul Boutelle), an American socialist political activist
- Kwame Tucker, a Bermudian cricketer
- Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), a Trinidadian-American black activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party
- Kwamena Bartels, a Ghanaian politician and former government minister of the New Patriotic Party
- Kwamena Ahwoi, a Ghanaian politician who served as Minister for Local Government and Rural Development from 1990 to 2001 and Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1997
- Kwamina Ropapa Mensah, a Ghanaian footballer who plays for Nashville SC in the USL Championship
- Osei Kwame Panyin, eighteenth-century leader of the Ashanti Confederacy, in what is southern and central Ghana today
- Rich Kwame Amevor, Australian rapper
Fictional character
- Kwame (Captain Planet), a fictional character in the animated television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers
- Kwame, a fictional character in British television series I May Destroy You.
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