Some have naturalized for other countries but that does not make them less of Ghanaians because their roots can be traced back here, so without further ado, here are 2o Ghanaians doing great around the World.
1. Herman Chinery-Hesse
Herman Chinery-Hesse was born in Ireland and an alma mater of Texas State University, knowing his roots, he decided to come back home to help in our technology. His story is one of the most inspiring ones so far. When he first stepped into the country, he had no job and back then many companies did not really see the need for a software but he sat in his room and created softwares for companies. He is the founder of SOFTribe and sometimes referred to as the Bill Gates of Ghana. He made the list of 15 STEM innovators and is widely known in the world of computers.
2. Dr. Thomas Mensah
Dr. Thomas Mensah is a Ghanaian-born chemical engineer and inventor. His works are in fields relating to the developments in Fiber Optics and Nanotechnology. He was awarded 7 USA and worldwide patents in Fiber Optics within a period of six years. His one of his popular books, “The Right Stuff Comes In Black, Too” is a widely acclaimed book loved by many people.
3. Apostle Kwadwo Safo
Apostle Kwadwo Safo is an inventor and the founder of Katanka Automobiles and is widely known around the world for being the first African to build cars right here in Africa. He’s invented many gadgets and machines but he’s well known for his cars. He’s a man who believes the average Ghanaian can make it in every field if we put our minds to it.
4. Bright Simons
Bright Simons is a Ghanaian social innovator, entrepreneur, writer and researcher affiliated with IMANI. He’s the president of mPedigree, a self-described ‘social enterprise’ noted for its work to expose makers and distributors of counterfeit medicines
5. Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor
Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor is a scientist and engineer who has played an important role in the introduction and development of the Internet throughout Africa. His work is well known around the world and speaks for itself.
6. Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academician. She was also a Minister of Education in Ghana under the Jerry Rawlings administration. Her works and books are widely known putting Ghana on the map.
7. Reggie Yates
Reggie Yates is an English actor, television presenter and radio DJ, best known from his roles as Rastamouse, Leo Jones in Doctor Who, and for his work at the BBC in radio and television – presenting various shows for BBC Radio 1 with Fearne Cotton – as well as hosting the ITV2 reality show Release the Hounds.Both of his parents were born in Ghana but are currently living in the UK, tracing his roots back to Ghana but naturalized as British.
8. Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch is a journalist, barrister and human rights development worker of Ghanaian, English and Jewish heritage. Born in Stavanger, Norway, to an English father and a Ghanaian mother, she grew up in England
9. Anas Aremeyaw Anas
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a Ghanaian investigative journalist born in the late 1970s. Anas’s motto is “name, shame and jail” and he is famous for utilizing his anonymity as a tool in his investigative arsenal. He’s worked for many giant news agencies around the world and has unveiled a lot of shady deals by public servants. He’s an advocate for human rights and his work is widely known around the world.
10. Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Although he’s no more the Secretary-General, he’s still relentless about his duties to world peace.
11. Adam Afriyie
Adam Afriyie is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Windsor. He was first elected in the 2005 general election, re-elected in the 2010 and 2015 elections whose roots can be traced to Ghana and is making strides in the world of politicians.
12. Lord Paul Yaw Boateng
Lord Paul Yaw Boateng is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK’s first mixed-race Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Following his departure from the House of Commons, he served as the British High Commissioner to South Africa from March 2005 to May 2009. He was introduced as a member of the House of Lords on 1 July 2010.
13. Peter Bossman
Peter Bossman is a Ghanaian-born Slovenian doctor and politician. He is currently serving as mayor of Piran, a city and municipality in Slovenian Istria in south-western Slovenia.
14. Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng
Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng is a British politician and historian. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as a Member of Parliament since 2010 representing the constituency of Spelthorne in Surrey.
15. Lord Bernard Ribeiro
Bernard Francisco Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro, is a British surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2005 to 2008. He has created a life peer in 2010 and sits in the House of Lords on the Conservative benches. He was born in Ghana and schooled at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and at Middlesex Hospital Medical School.
16. John Akomfrah
John Akomfrah, OBE is an English artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator. He’s of Ghanaian descent, whose “commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films”.
17. Amma Asante
Amma Asante is a British born to Ghanaian parents. She is a British screenwriter, film director, and former actress. She wrote and directed A Way of Life (2004). Her second film as a director was Belle in 2013.
18. Yaba Badoe
Yaba Badoe is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author. She left Ghana to be educated in Britain at a very young age. She worked as a civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ghana, before beginning her career in journalism as a trainee at the BBC.
19. Akosua Busia
Akosua Gyamama Busia is a Ghanaian actress, film director, author and songwriter who lives in the U.K. Busia is best known for her role as Nettie Harris in the 1985 film The Color Purple alongside Whoopi Goldberg.
20. Her Ladyship Mrs. Justice Mabel Maame Agyemang
Her Ladyship Mrs. Justice Mabel Maame Agyemang née Banful (also Yamoa), is an expert superior court judge who has served in the judiciaries of the Governments of Ghana, The Gambia and Swaziland. She was the first female Chief Justice of the Gambia.
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