Shaheera Asante

Shaheera Efua Shama-Solomon Asante (born 1966 in London) is a United Kingdom radio and television presenter.

Early life

Her mother is from Guyana with Brazilian heritage and her father was from Ghana. Her parents met at Cambridge University whilst studying obstetrics (mother) and law (father).

Her official Ghanaian title is ‘Nana’ Princess Shaheera Asante. Her late father Victor Laurence Kweku Shama-Solomon, was a chief, lawyer and later judge in Sekondi-Takoradi (1973–2004), and her grandmother was Queen mother Oyemun of Shama Ahanta East Metropolitan District, in the Western Region of Ghana, West Africa. This area of Africa still remains, in many areas, a matrilineal society.

Asante grew up in the United Kingdom, Guyana, Ghana and Canada; in her later teens her mother re-married and emigrated to Alberta, Canada where Asante studied Humanities at University of Alberta.

Career

In 1993 she began working as a music and entertainment television presenter in Canada working for Citytv, Much Music, Vancouver Television and Rogers Cable TV, where in 1995 she produced and presented various entertainment and music programmes including her own programme World Music Express the first dedicated world music show of its kind in North America at the time.