title: Afua
text: # Afua
  
  Afua (/ˈæfwə/, AF-wə) or Efua (/ˈɛfwə/, EF-wə) is an Akan day name traditionally given to girls born on a Friday; the equivalent male name is Kofi.
  
  ## Given name or day name
  
  * Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse, Ghanaian pædiatric surgeon and former president of the Medical Women's International Association
  * Afua Bruce, American engineer, data executive, professor, and politician
  * Afua Cooper (born 1957), Canadian historian and dub poet, born in Jamaica
  * Afua Hirsch (born 1981), British writer, broadcaster, and former barrister, born in Norway
  * Afua Kobi (fl. 1834–1884), asantehemaa of the Ashanti Empire
  * Afua Kuma (1908–1987), Ghanaian oral theologian
  * Afua Osei, American entrepreneur and public speaker, co-founder of She Leads Africa
  * Afua Richardson (born 1980), African–Native American comic book artist
  * Efua Asibon, Ghanaian businesswoman
  * Efua Baker (born c. 1967), British singer-songwriter and celebrity fitness expert, born in Ghana
  * Efua Dorkenoo (1949–2014), affectionately known as "Mama Efua", Ghanaian-British campaigner against female genital mutilation
  * Efua Sutherland (1924–1996), Ghanaian playwright, director, dramatist, children's author, poet, educationalist, researcher, child advocate, and cultural activist
  * Efua Traoré, Nigerian-German writer
  