Shaheera Asante

Shaheera Asante (born 16 December 1972) is a British-born broadcast journalist, curator and environmental advocate, of Guyanese and Ghanaian descent.

Her mother came from Guyana with Brazilian heritage, and her late father came from Ghana. Her parents met at the University of Cambridge while studying obstetrics (mother) and law (father).

Her mother is Guyanese, now a retired obstetrician in Canada, and her late father was a Ghanaian lawyer and later judge in Sekondi-Takoradi (1973–2004). Shaheera's ancestral surname includes Shama Solomon Oyemum, and she is a princess of the royal family of Oyemum in Ghana, via her grandmother who was Queen mother of Shama Ahanta East Metropolitan District, in the Western Region of Ghana, West Africa. She is both Fante and Ashanti.

Asante grew up in Guyana, the United Kingdom, and Canada predominately, having spent a short time in Ghana, before emigrating with her mother to Canada as a teenager. There she studied Humanities at the University of Alberta. Asante refers to herself as a "global citizen" by nature.

Asante began working as a music and entertainment television presenter in Canada working for Citytv, Much Music, Vancouver Television and Rogers Cable. During the late 1990s, she produced and presented various entertainment and music programmes including her own programme, World Music Express, at the time one of the youngest presenters of what was then the first dedicated world music show of its kind in North America.

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