Afua
# 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
