# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akyaaba-addai-sebo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:01:12.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akyaaba-addai-sebo"
name: "Akyaaba Addai-Sebo"
slug: "akyaaba-addai-sebo"
description: "Akyaaba Addai-Sebo is a Ghanaian analyst, journalist and pan-African activist credited with developing the recognition of October as Black History Month in 1987 in the UK. With Ansel Wong, Addai-Sebo co-edited the 1988 book Our Story: A Handbook of African History and Contemporary Issues. Addai-Sebo's activism spans the African continent, the United Kingdom and the United States, and his influencers include C. L. R. James, Chancellor Williams, John Henrik Clarke, and Jewell Mazique."
tagline: "Ghanaian analyst and activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Akyaaba_Addai-Sebo_pictured_after_a_2022_interview_with_AKADi_Magazine_in_the_United_Kingdom.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           37.77
  momentum:             6.818181818181819
  historical:           5.069618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 233
sources:
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akyaaba_Addai-Sebo"
    title: "Akyaaba Addai-Sebo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akyaaba_Addai-Sebo"
    title: "Akyaaba Addai-Sebo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akyaaba_Addai-Sebo"
    title: "Akyaaba Addai-Sebo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C-%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A8%D9%88"
    title: "اکیا با ادائی-سیبو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akyaaba_Addai-Sebo"
    title: "Akyaaba Addai-Sebo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akyaaba_Addai-Sebo"
    title: "Akyaaba Addai-Sebo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101152271"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump