{"id":447720,"date":"2017-12-16T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/16\/why-i-changed-my-name-to-nana-ama-mcbrown-nana-ama-mcbrown-shares-her-story\/"},"modified":"2017-12-16T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T16:00:26","slug":"why-i-changed-my-name-to-nana-ama-mcbrown-nana-ama-mcbrown-shares-her-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/16\/why-i-changed-my-name-to-nana-ama-mcbrown-nana-ama-mcbrown-shares-her-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I changed my name to Nana Ama McBrown &#8211; Nana Ama McBrown shares her story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Saturday, 16 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-16<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/67718937.295.jpg\" alt=\"MCBROWN Starwoman\" title=\"MCBROWN Starwoman\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Nana Ama McBrown<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513440026_140_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Many fans of celebrated Ghanaian actress, Nana Ama McBrown believe that is her original name but she has disclosed that the name was adopted somewhere along the line in pursuit of her acting career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was in school, my name was not Nana Ama McBrown. I was born Felicity Ama Agyemang but an uncle of mine based in the USA who felt the name was not good enough to brand me properly chose McBrown for me. There were times they will be mentioning Nana Ama McBrown and I will not respond because that was not my name and it was not in tune with what I had grown to be identified as.Branding is very important in one\u2019s career\u201d, she revealed during a presentation in this year\u2019s \u2018Tek Talk\u2019 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).<\/p>\n<p>According to her, Felicity Ama Agyemang was a very common  name and difficult to brand and therefore bought into the idea for a change in name indicating that she has no regrets for how far it has brought her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday when you mention McBrown everybody knows it is me. 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