Juliet Ibrahim’s Ankara Styles Plus 7 Things To Know

1. Juliet Ibrahim is an actor and entrepreneur born 3rd March 1986 in Ghana to a Lebanese father and a Ghanaian-Liberian mother.

2. She had her primary education in Lebanon, secondary education in Ivory Coast (Cote d’ivoire), and tertiary education in Ghana.

3.Juliet speaks English, French, and Spanish.

4. Juliet started off as a model, doing TV commercials and cat-walking runways for several brands.

5.Her acting career began in 2005 when she got a role in the movie “Crime to Christ”.

6. She got married in 2010 to Ghanaian businessman Kwadwo Safo Kantanka and had a son (Jayden Safo) 17th December 2010. But the marriage ended in 2014.

7. Juliet has identified with being a black woman (still yet to understand how we got to calling ourselves “black”) so please don’t call her half-caste:

‘I had a random conversation the other day with someone and it was appalling when he mentioned passively to me that he doesn’t see me as a black woman! He argued, “you are not black enough. Your skin isn’t dark enough, your hair not kinky enough. And thus my siblings and I do not count you as black.”

Now, this is exactly what we are fighting to correct among ourselves and the world at large. I am a black woman!

When I’m abroad among the whites, I am classified and recognized as a black woman. However, right among us Africans, I’ll be referred to as a half-caste. This is the most derogatory term to describe a person of mixed race or mixed ethnicity.

We are referred to as mixed-race or multi-racial. Mixed race people are no less black than their dark-skinned counterparts.

So, let’s all say NO to RACISM, TRIBALISM, COLORISM and SEGREGATION. Let’s teach and train our children to grow up and accept people for who they are and not by the colour of their skin.’

The last time we checked, ” half-caste” is like saying “half-pure” which actually sounds derogatory.