Adjoa Asamoah: Meet Ghanaian lady who serves on Joe Biden’s team as national advisor
- Adjoa Asamoah, the National Advisor for Black Engagement on Joe Biden's team, hails from Ghana in West Africa
- Adjoa worked on multiple fronts to meaningfully engage the Black community, ranging from the African Diaspora to the Panhel family, leading to Joe Biden's victory
- According to the brilliant lady, she resolved at age nine to help Black people move forward and that has been her lifetime commitment since then
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A Ghanaian lady named Adjoa Asamoah was very instrumental in the victory of the US President-elect, Joe Biden, over the incumbent, Donald Trump.
Reports sighted by YEN.com.gh on Ghanaiannews.ca, Ghanaweb.com and Ghanaguardian.com, indicate that Adjoa's work caused Biden's campaign to appeal effectively to many Black Americans.
As the campaign’s National Advisor for Black Engagement, Adjoa's role involved has involved working on multiple fronts to meaningfully engage the Black community, ranging from the African Diaspora to the Panhel family.
Source: UGC
Narrating her life story in an interview, Adjoa Asamoah confirmed that she was born to a Ghanaian father and Black American mother.
Her dad was born in the Gold Coast, which is now known as Ghana, became a professor in political science and eventually retired in that profession.
Adjoa's mother, on the other hand, was born in Jim Crow south, and reportedly experienced racism on multiple fronts, some of which Adjoa witnessed personally.
According to the brilliant lady, she resolved at age nine to help Black people move forward and that has been her lifetime commitment since then.
In another interesting report by YEN.com.gh, Dr Prince Obed Boateng, now a former student of the University of Cape Coast, graduated at the 2020 congregation as the overall best student in the School of Medical Sciences.
According to a post sighted by YEN.com.gh on the official Twitter handle of UCC-MSA, Obed was able to sweep as many as 12 coveted awards.
The former student of Achimota Senior High School says that he plans to return to the UCC medical school as a lecturer within the next 10 years.
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