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Adjoa

Meaning — An Akan name meaning "born on Monday" — the Akan day-name for a girl born on Monday. Monday is associated with peace and gentleness in some Akan traditions. The masculine Monday name is Kojo.·Akan origin·Female·ah-JOH-ah

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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Literary FictionContemporary FictionComing-of-AgeDiaspora Fiction

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Variations & nicknames

AdjoaAdwoa

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Adjoa AsanteAdjoa MensahAdjoa BoatengAdjoa OseiAdjoa Owusu

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