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Also known as Amma Asentewaa Asante, Asante, Amma, A.A. Asante

Amma Asentewaa Asante (born 14 May 1972) is a Dutch politician. She was a member of the municipal council of Amsterdam from 1998 to 2006 and a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Labour Party from 2016 to 2017.

Occupation: politician, political scientist, adviser
Position held: member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, municipal councillor of Amsterdam
Citizenship: Kingdom of the Netherlands, Ghana
Born: May 14, 1972

Overview

Amma Asentewaa Asante (born 14 May 1972) is a Dutch politician. She was a member of the municipal council of Amsterdam from 1998 to 2006 and a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Labour Party from 2016 to 2017. Early life Amma Asentewaa Asante was born on 14 May 1972 in Kumasi in Ghana. Her father was initially an illegal immigrant in the Netherlands, but he became a legal resident by a general pardon in 1975. For family reunification, Asante and her mother moved to the Netherlands in 1978. Her father was a factory worker and her mother a chambermaid. Asante studied political science at the University of Amsterdam. Politics Asante is a member of the Labour Party (PvdA).

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“What I never, ever wanted was for anybody to think that she was “exoticising” Seretse in some way and that the relationship wasn’t anything other than a real attraction between two people”
— Amma Asante: ‘The issue of mixed relationships still isn’t comfortable for a lot of people’ 21 November 2016
“At some point heart, truth, and instinct will out, and each is bringing that out in the other”
— Interview [Part 5: Amma Asante, Director, “Belle” ] 2 May 2014
“I want to be part of creating the world as it will be when people believe in black women”
— Director Amma Asante on Her New Film A United Kingdom and Her Creative Process 16 February 2017
“I’m really happy that now is the time because in the right quarters and the right conversations are being had”
— Interview: Director Amma Asante On ‘Where Hands Touch’ 10 May 2019
“I do think women lead differently than men, equally powerfully, but differently”
— This Austen-Esque Period Drama With a Black Protagonist Has Us Intrigued 1 April 2014
“This other side of that coin that I did learn is that you didn’t have to stay in the position or the role that you entered the industry in, that you could progress sideways, diagonally, backwards, upwards, however you want to look at it”
— Interview [Part 1: Amma Asante, Director, “Belle” ] 28 April 2014

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