The historic election of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as the first-ever female Vice President of the Republic of Ghana has brought her family into the spotlight.

Prof. Opoku-Agyemang has three children namely Dr. Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Dr. Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, and Dr. Maame Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang.

Known for her outstanding accomplishments and recognition in education, her children have similarly and exceptionally followed in her footsteps, achieving success of their own.

Inspired by the outstanding academic accomplishments of their mother, the children of the renowned Ghanaian educationist and politician are making meaningful contributions across various fields and having a significant impact in their own right, embodying the adage, "When you educate a man, you educate one person, but when you educate a woman, you educate a whole nation."

With doctorate degrees and the distinction of being founders of several companies, Prof. Opoku-Agyemang’s children are definitely ones to watch.

GhanaWeb takes a look at the profile of the three children of Ghana’s first-ever female vice president.



Kweku Opoku-Agyemang

Dr. Kweku Opoku-Agyemang is the eldest son of Prof. Opoku-Agyemang. He is an economist and computer scientist based in Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Opoku-Agyemang is the founder and CEO of Development Economics X, a company that creates economic and social solutions, using the best research methods, data analyses, and innovations to design and evaluate high-impact interventions.

He is also the Founder and CEO of Machine Learning X, a consulting firm that works with governments, including those of Pakistan, Canada, and the UK, as well as numerous universities. Additionally, he serves as an honorary research affiliate at the International Growth Centre.

Kweku is a former honorary research fellow with the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group and the Center for Effective Global Action, both at the University of California, Berkeley.

He holds a doctorate in Development Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. in Economics from Ohio University, and a B.A. in Economics with Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana.



Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

Dr. Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang is the academic director of the School for International Training Ghana and a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon.

He has an undergraduate degree, 2 master's degrees, and a PhD, all in English.

He holds a PhD in English literature from West Virginia University, where he also taught undergraduate courses in the Department of English.



Maame Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang

Dr. Maame Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang is the youngest of the three children of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang.

She is a graduate of various educational institutions including the University of Ghana, the University of Cape Coast, Sorbonne University, and the University of Toronto in Canada.

She was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University and the 2020–21 Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Fellow at the University of Michigan.

Maame Adwoa holds a master’s from the Paris-Sorbonne Université and an MA from the University of Cape Coast and is the author of Typologies of Humor in African Literatures.

Some of her educational qualifications are:

• PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada
• MA: Bilingual Translation, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
• Master à finalité recherche, mention littérature, philologie, linguistique; spécialité littératures comparées (Mention Bien), Sorbonne Université
• BA: French with English, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

She is currently a member of the Law, Humanities, and Social Sciences faculty, and the Director of the Writing Centre at Ashesi University

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