Early Life, Family and Training Atta Kwami was born George Atta Kwami in 1956 in Accra, Ghana. He grew up in a household where creative expression was a daily presence. His father, Robert Kwami, worked as a music teacher, while his mother, Grace Kwami, was a prominent first-generation Ghanaian contemporary artist. This environment of teaching and making shaped his early years in Accra. His formal training and later teaching career we…