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Efua Dorkenoo

1949 - 2014

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Efua Dorkenoo, OBE (6 September 1949 – 18 October 2014), affectionately known as "Mama Efua", was a Ghanaian-British campaigner against female genital mutilation (FGM) who pioneered the global movement to end the practice and worked internationally for more than 30 years to see the campaign "move from a problem lacking in recognition to a key issue for governments around the world.. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Efua Dorkenoo has received more than 37,211 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Efua Dorkenoo is the 507th most popular social activist (up from 510th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Ghana (up from 26th in 2019) and the most popular Ghanaian Social Activist.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Efua Dorkenoo ranks 507 out of 840. Before her are Virginia Bolten, Gertrud Adelborg, Mari Beyleryan, Denis Goldberg, Nadia Murad, and Daniel De Leon. After her are Medha Patkar, Hebe de Bonafini, William Luther Pierce, Helene Stöcker, Gunnar Sønsteby, and Jerry Rubin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Efua Dorkenoo ranks 475. Before her are Shlomo Artzi, Valeriu Muravschi, Orani João Tempesta, Vladimír Martinec, Pavel Lungin, and Lori Sandri. After her are Brian Yuzna, Carlo Petrini, Burghart Klaußner, Takeshi Shudo, Patrick Nève, and Zlatko Mateša. Among people deceased in 2014, Efua Dorkenoo ranks 341. Before her are Frankie Knuckles, Miloslava Rezková, J. E. Freeman, James Foley, Lori Sandri, and China Zorrilla. After her are Urs Widmer, Ben Bradlee, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Buddy DeFranco, Anahita Ratebzad, and Željko Šturanović.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Efua Dorkenoo ranks 17 out of 162. Before her are Peter Turkson (1948), Peter Mensah (1959), John Kufuor (1938), William Boyd (1952), Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), and Samuel Kuffour (1976). After her are Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (1931), Ama Ata Aidoo (1942), Sulley Muntari (1984), John Mahama (1958), Asamoah Gyan (1985), and El Anatsui (1944).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ghana

Among social activists born in Ghana, Efua Dorkenoo ranks 1. After her are Felix Nartey (null).

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