Akua

Akua belongs to the Akan day-name tradition of Ghana, given to a girl born on Wednesday. Each day of the week in Akan culture carries a spiritual character, and Akua children are associated with Awo, a protective feminine energy. Two syllables flow through an open vowel pair, the k a clean central beat. Maya Angelou's poem and a thousand Ghanaian classrooms have kept the name vivid, and in diasporic communities across the Atlantic it signals both heritage and a particular day of arrival. You are named for the moment you entered the world. A name with its own calendar.