She walked into the audition with her grandmother’s gold earrings and a question: how do we make sure the next generation knows where their name comes from? That question is the charity platform she now carries — a literacy initiative for Ghanaian-heritage children in the Ashanti diaspora.
A communications graduate who spent her thesis year in a Kumasi library reading old folklore manuscripts, Ama is the contestant who shows up to every event with a book in her bag.