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Adjoa
Adjoa Monday in the Akan week begins the cycle of working days, making Adjoa a character associated with beginnings and the ordinary, daily work of life. In fiction characters named Adjoa are often written with a practical, unshowy competence — they are the ones who show up and get things done without needing the performance of crisis to motivate them.
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