Anita-Pearl Ankor
Female artist Anita-Pearl Ankor has been receiving a lot of applause for standing out against all odds in a male-dominated industry.
As a result, she has recently been honoured with GOWA Awards 2020 most outstanding woman in innovation, putting her ahead of most of her colleagues.
Anita is a graduate of the University of Ghana, where she studied Agricultural Science and majored in Post Harvest Technology. Interestingly, she has put aside her degree certificate to follow her passion as a muralist.
Becoming an artist has always been her dream as a child. She, therefore, used to scribble on the wall, draw on furniture, among others.
Anita-Pearl, now popularly known as ‘The Female Painter’, gained prominence in 2019 when a video of her painting went viral on social media.
She has also done a number of fabulous pieces of arts within the country and left her iconic marks on the busy streets of Ghana’s capital, Accra.
Among her works are the current murals seen around the Tetteh Quarshie and Ako Adjei interchanges.
At the GOWA Awards—a humanitarian initiative to honour and award women involved in social change, organised by ASKOF Productions—Anita-Pearl Ankor was in the most outstanding woman in innovation category with other prominent Ghanaian women from other fields, and she won for her unbeatable outstanding works towards social change.
By Francis Addo