Akumaa Mama Zimbi, also known professionally as Dr. Joyce Akumaa Dongotey-Padi,^[1][2] is a Ghanaian television and radio broadcast journalist, women’s rights activist, blogger, marriage counselor, and an actress in Ghana. Akumaa is known for her fascinating, yet sexually stimulating, ways of expressing “Medaase” (Thank you). Her exceptional ways of wearing her headgear also comes off as a distinct Akumaa brand. Little is known about Akumaa’s early life as well as her family and educational background. However, it is known that her father is a policeman and her husband is a businessman to whom she has been married for over twenty-four years.

Akumaa emerged as a celebrated actress in the early 1990s when she featured in the popular Cantata Show as a “house girl.” This show was hosted by the Ghana Television Station. Her interest in broadcast journalism, precisely in radio, began in the early 2000s. In her interview with Deloris Frimpong Manso, Akumaa stated that Rosemary, a very good friend of hers, encouraged her to visit Joy FM, the Tema branch, in the year 2000 to discuss her interest in working with this popular Ghanaian radio station as a radio presenter. Although Akumaa possessed very little to zero background in broadcast journalism, her popularity as an actress together with her acumen as an eloquent speaker allowed Joy FM to offer her an opportunity to learn on the job. Looking up to radio and TV personalities such as Father Bosco, Akumaa applied her personal principles of hard work, discipline, and humility at her workplace and over a period of about eighteen years, rose through the ranks.^[4] Presently,^[when?] she is a host for the Odo Ahomaso Show, which offers critical advise on relationship and marital issues on Adom TV in Ghana.