Akofa Edjeani Asiedu

Not My Daughter, Akofa Edjeani's short film tackling female genital mutilation, was named best short at the 2008 Africa Movie Academy Awards. Two years later I Sing of a Well, which she starred in and co-produced, took three AMAAs and the jury's special award.

Early life

She was born on 20 February 1969 and comes from Avatime Vane in the Volta Region. She started acting in the drama club at Mawuli School, studied performing arts at the University of Ghana and in 1995 added a GIJ certificate in public relations and advertising. Her elder sister is Constance Ama Emefa Edjeani-Afenu.

Career

She has acted in Ghanaian and Ghanaian-Nigerian films since the mid-1990s, including For Better For Worse (1995) and the British-Ghanaian film The Cursed Ones (2015). She has served on the interim governing council of the Ghana Culture Forum and was inducted into the Golden Movie Awards Walk of Fame. To support her family she has run a restaurant in Kanda, Accra, since the late 1990s.

Family

She was married to Robert Asiedu for more than twenty years before they divorced. She has two children.