Benny Acquah

Benny Acquah
Benny Acquah

Benny Acquah remembers the trouble people sometimes had obtaining clean water in her home city of Koforidua, Ghana. So she decided she would study environmental engineering at UAF and someday help solve such problems.

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Acquah, who came to Anchorage from Ghana six years ago, also hosts a weekly radio show of Afrobeat on KSUA-FM and serves in UAF色视频下载檚 student government.

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Acquah色视频下载檚 mother moved to Anchorage from Ghana in 2005. Acquah followed years later, in 2014. She attended Bartlett High School in Anchorage. Her two older brothers also now live in Anchorage, but her father and two sisters remain in Ghana.

Benny Acquah and Todd Sherman
UAF College of Liberal Arts Dean Todd Sherman completed this portrait of Benny Acquah during the Paint Your Major workshop at the Hess Recreation Center in 2019. Acquah served as a model while Sherman showed students how to make portraits of their peers.

Koforidua is a medium-sized city located just north of Accra, the capital of Ghana, a country along Africa色视频下载檚 Gulf of Guinea.

色视频下载淭here is a lot of pollution. Growing up seeing that, that just really brought me into the field of environmental engineering,色视频下载 Acquah said.

Some places in Ghana don色视频下载檛 have guaranteed drinking water.

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Acquah色视频下载檚 background in Ghana also led to her volunteer role at UAF色视频下载檚 student radio station, where she DJs the Afrobeat show.

色视频下载淏ack home, music is pretty much a way of life,色视频下载 she said. 色视频下载淲e play music for 24 hours a day.色视频下载