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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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 35,318 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Efua Dorkenoo is the 510th most popular social activist, the 26th most popular biography from Ghana and the most popular Ghanaian Social Activist.

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  • 35k

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  • 41.63

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.09

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  • 1.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Efua Dorkenoo ranks 510 out of 538Before her are Mina Ahadi, Lillian Wald, Aaron Swartz, Indira Bajramović, Dorothea Dix, and Aed Carabao. After her are Jamnalal Bajaj, Bogaletch Gebre, Dolores Huerta, Beyers Naudé, Iqbal Masih, and Frances Willard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Efua Dorkenoo ranks 560Before her are Homi K. Bhabha, Ronnie Ray Smith, Peter Friedman, Harry Turtledove, Anne-Marie Lizin, and John Haglelgam. After her are José Rodrigues Neto, Jan Egil Storholt, Ayşe Erzan, Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, Marion Hänsel, and Suthep Thaugsuban. Among people deceased in 2014, Efua Dorkenoo ranks 419Before her are Don Keefer, André Buffière, Stanisław Barańczak, Iñaki Azkuna, Rinnat Safin, and Ghiță Licu. After her are Fyodor Cherenkov, Mae Young, L'Wren Scott, Kate O'Mara, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, and Paul England.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Efua Dorkenoo ranks 26 out of 121Before her are John Mahama (1958), Sulley Muntari (1984), Stephen Appiah (1980), Hilla Limann (1934), Fred Akuffo (1937), and Gerald Asamoah (1978). After her are Kwadwo Asamoah (1988), Edward Akufo-Addo (1906), Alphonso Davies (2000), Akwasi Afrifa (1936), Ama Ata Aidoo (1942), and Peter Poreku Dery (1918).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ghana

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