Kwame 635981 217584860 2008-06-06T18:13:31Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other {{Infobox Given name 2 | name = Kwame | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation= | gender = male | meaning = | name day = Saturday | region = Ghana | origin = [[Twi]] | related names = | footnotes = }} '''Kwame''' or '''Kwamé''' is a [[Twi]] and [[Akan name|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 [[President for Life|Life President]] (originally Francis Nwia-Kofi Ngonloma) and one of the most influential founders of [[Pan-Africanism]]. *[[Stokely Carmichael|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 Kilpatrick|Kwame M. Kilpatrick]], the Mayor of [[Detroit, Michigan]] *[[Anthony Appiah|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 (U.S. TV 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. {{disambig}} [[Category:Given names]] [[pl:Kwame]]