{"id":90428,"date":"2015-02-10T14:51:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=90428"},"modified":"2015-02-14T18:49:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:49:29","slug":"tedx-accra-speakers-profile-meet-maameyaa-boafo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=90428","title":{"rendered":"TEDx Accra speaker profile: Meet MaameYaa Boafo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MaameYaa Boafo is a Ghanaian actress currently based in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Pakistan, Sudan, Kenya, Switzerland and Ethiopia, her upbringing has made her an artist with a heart for culture, travel, and humanity.<\/p>\n<p>She was an active advocate and speaker at the &#8220;Bring Back Our Girls&#8221; rally in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Boafo is also known for her starring role in the international hit web series, \u201cAn African City&#8221; as the character Nana Yaa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why you should listen to her talk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Living overseas enhances how proud I am to be an African.<\/p>\n<p>Representing my country and my Ashanti tribe is important to me.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">My experiences have usually singled me out as one of the few, or the only African. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">I AM a part of Ghana&#8217;s Generation Next and I look forward to sharing how I represent that in my work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Quote from MaameYaa: Soli Deo Gloria <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">MaameYaa on Social media: Twitter and Instagram: @maameyaaboafo <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Website: www.maameyaaboafo.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: TEDx Accra\u00a02015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MaameYaa Boafo is a Ghanaian actress currently based in New York. Growing up in Pakistan, Sudan, Kenya, Switzerland and Ethiopia, her upbringing has made her an artist with a heart for culture, travel, and humanity. She was an active advocate and speaker at the &#8220;Bring Back Our Girls&#8221; rally in New York. Ms. Boafo is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6,33],"class_list":["post-90428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-togbe-afede","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}