Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten
Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten is a Ghanaian media practitioner and the Head of the Akan-Nzema Department of the College of Languages Education, Ajumako Campus of the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana. She is the first person to receive a doctorate degree in the Twi language, one of the varieties of Akan. Personal life Wiafe-Akenten is from Atwima-Ofoase in the Ashanti Region. Dr. Anima grew up in a family of academicians. She is married to Dr. Charles B. Wiafe-Akenten, who is also a lecturer at the Psychology Department of the University of Ghana. Her first child, Dr Michael Wiafe-Kwagyan, is a lecturer with the Plant Science Department in the same institution. She has three daughters - Nana Adwoa, Awo Asantewaa, and Ohenemaa Wiafewaa. Education Wiafe-Akenten had her secondary education at the St. Roses Secondary School, Akwatia in the Eastern Region of Ghana between 1991 and 1993. She attended University of Ghana for her first degree, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Theatre Arts (Theatre for Extension Communication) in 1995. She received the Doctorate Degree from the University of Ghana in July, 2017 in Ghanaian Language Studies (Akan Linguistics - Media Discourse). Notably, she wrote her dissertation on Modern