Kwame or Kwam� is a Twi and Akan day name (Akan name) given to a boy born on a Saturday, originating in Ghana. People with this name include: * Osei Kwame Panyin, an 18th century leader of the Ashanti Confederacy, located in what is today southern and central Ghana * Kwame Anthony Appiah (Anthony Appiah), a Ghanaian-British philosopher of semantics and racism * Kwame Brown, an American basketball player in the NBA * Kwam� Holland (Kwam�), an American rapper who enjoyed brief popularity during the golden age of hip hop; reemerged as a music producer named K1 Million * Kwame Jackson, one of the two final candidates on Donald Trumps American television reality series The Apprentice (The Apprentice (U.S. TV Series)). * Kwame M. Kilpatrick (Kwame Kilpatrick), a former Mayor of Detroit, Michigan * Kwame Boatwright, a North Carolina State sophomore student and track athlete * Kwame Nkrumah, a Ghanaian politician and for a time Life President (President for Life) (originally Francis Nwia-Kofi Ngonloma) and one of the most influential founders of Pan-Africanism. * Kwame Raoul, a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since his appointment in 2004.

* Kwame Tucker, a Bermudan cricketer * Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), the name adopted by Stokely Carmichael, a Trinidadian-American Black activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party to honor Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed S�kou Tour�

In addition: * Kwame (Captain Planet), a character in the television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers

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