# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meri-nana-ama-danquah
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:44:01.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meri-nana-ama-danquah"
name: "Meri Nana-Ama Danquah"
slug: "meri-nana-ama-danquah"
description: "Meri Nana-Ama Danquah is a Ghanaian-American writer, editor, journalist and public speaker, whose name at birth was Mildred Mary Nana-Ama Boakyewaa Brobby. She is best known for her 1998 memoir Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression. Her short story \"When a Man Loves a Woman\" was shortlisted for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing."
tagline: "Ghanaian-American writer"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-09-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.87
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.404104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7_%DA%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%81"
    title: "میری نانا-اما ڈانکوہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Nana-Ama_Danquah"
    title: "Meri Nana-Ama Danquah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Nana-Ama_Danquah"
    title: "Meri Nana-Ama Danquah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Nana-Ama_Danquah"
    title: "Meri Nana-Ama Danquah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fat.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Nana-Ama_Danquah"
    title: "Meri Nana-Ama Danquah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Nana-Ama_Danquah"
    title: "Meri Nana-Ama Danquah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Nana-Ama_Danquah"
    title: "Meri Nana-Ama Danquah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_Nana-Ama_Danquah"
    title: "Meri Nana-Ama Danquah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23418599"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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