# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-k-asante
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:47:08.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-k-asante"
name: "M. K. Asante"
slug: "m-k-asante"
description: "M. K. Asante is an American author, filmmaker, songwriter, recording artist, and professor. He is the author of the 2013 best-selling memoir Buck: A Memoir and the 2024 memoir Nephew: A Memoir in Four-Part Harmony."
tagline: "American writer, filmmaker and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MK_Asante_at_UCLA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1982-11-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.554285333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 69100
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mkasante"
    handle:    "mkasante"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mkasante/"
    handle:    "mkasante"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/asantemk"
    handle:    "asantemk"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1802024/"
    handle:    "nm1802024"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mkasante.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCncuYF4ZyGjOwp2jaZ3lqaw"
    handle:    "@mkasanteproductions"
    followers: 69100
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/97d4a3f2-ffd1-4162-8240-957a20298fef"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85._%D9%83%D9%89._%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ام. كى. اسانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._K._Asante"
    title: "M. K. Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._K._Asante"
    title: "M. K. Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._K._Asante"
    title: "M. K. Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/M._K._Asante"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6712734"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2201931"
    title: "M.K. Asante"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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