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Baëta
Baëta
is a
surname
of
Portuguese language
or
Lusophone
origin. The surname is common among an
Anlo Ewe
coastal family from
Keta, Ghana
and
Lomé, Togo
whose ancestors were Afro-Brazilian-Portuguese. Notable people with this surname include:
Christian Gonçalves Kwami Baëta
, Ghanaian academic,
Presbyterian minister
and Synod Clerk of the
Evangelical Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast
from 1945 to 1949, who was
instrumental
in
the establishment
of the
University of Ghana, Legon
in
1948
Annie Ruth Baëta Jiagge
,
women’s rights
advocate
, the first Ghanaian
woman
to
qualify
as a
lawyer
and
the first woman
in
Ghana and the Commonwealth of Nations
to become a
judge
