Menaye Donkor is the wife of former Blackstars Player Sulley Ali Muntari. She is a businesswoman, a model, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a former beauty queen.
Menaye is also a Canadian-born Ghanaian and a mother of two. She won the 2004 edition of Miss Universe Ghana and represented Ghana at Miss Universe 2004.
Menaye Donkor’s Profile Summary
Full Name: Menaye Donkor
Age: 42 years old
Date of Birth: March 20, 1981
Height: 180 cm
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tribe: Fante
Religion: Christianity
Nationality: Canadian
Citizenship: Ghana & Canada
Spouse: Sulley Muntari (m. 2010)
Children: Jamal Krasie Muntari, Jamila Bema Muntari
Instagram: @menayedonkor
Twitter: @MenayeDonkor
Net worth: $1.5 million
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Menaye Donkor’s Early Life
Though Menaye was born in Canada, she was brought to Ghana at age five and raised by her mum and dad in Accra, Ghana. She is the youngest of her seven siblings, four brothers, and two sisters, and at age seven, she inherited the job title of “Royal Stool Bearer” from her paternal grandmother.
Cousin
Menaye Donkor is the cousin of Ama K. Abrebrese, a Ghanaian actress and a movie producer.
Education
She completed her primary and Junior High school education in Ghana at Morning Star School. For her high school education, she studied in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and moved back to her birthplace in Toronto to study Marketing at York University, where she graduated with honours.
In the summer of 2011, she studied film at The Studio (formerly The Sally Johnson Studio) in New York City and then completed a film course with Brian Deacon at the London Academy of Film, Media, and Television.
Modeling Career
Menaye began her modeling career in her early twenties. She participated in the 2004 edition of the Miss Ghana Universe beauty pageant, won the title, and represented Ghana at the International, which is the Miss Universe.
Sulley Muntari’s wife gained popularity and spent a few years traveling the world, working as a model. She started to appear on the covers of several magazines in Ghana and did editorial work for Magazines in South Africa, Milan, and Canada.
She represented Chopard at The Cannes Film Festival in 2012 and 2013. Also, she co-managed and marketed her then-boyfriend Sulley Muntari’s brand from 2006 until 2009. In 2012, she became the face of Printex, a fabric and textiles company in Ghana. Menaye became the ambassador of Africa Fashion Week London in both 2012 and 2013. In 2017, she was appointed the National Director for Miss Universe Ghana.
Menaye Donkor’s Businesses
Menaye Donkor owns and manages a real estate company in Ghana. She is also the owner of MALZ Promotions, Sincerëly Ghana Limited, and SHE-Y.
Philanthropy
In addition to her many businesses, Menaye has a charity organization that she founded in 2004. It is called the Menaye Charity Organization.
The foundation, which she is solely responsible for raising funds to support, seeks to provide free quality education and scholarships to youngsters in rural areas in Ghana, provide healthcare, and look at the development of young girls.
In 2021, her firm Sincerëly Ghana Limited collaborated with project BRAVE to give free sanitary pads to young women in Keta, the Volta Region Of Ghana. She has carried out similar projects in the other regions as well.
Menaye, through her foundation, has also supported an Orphanage in the Eastern Region, providing medical care for over 600 orphans.
The Menaye School of Hope
The Menaye School of Hope, located in Agona Asafo, Central Region, was established on September 7, 2000. Then, the school lacked amenities, so Menaye adopted the school in 2004 after she won Miss Universe Ghana to help build a better learning environment for the children.
So far, over 500 pupils have been through the school, and the facilities are continually expanding. The Menaye foundation provides the school with Uniforms, stationaries, textbooks, and others.
Enstoolment
In 2014, Menaye was enstooled as Nkosuohema (Development Queen) by the Chiefs and elders of Agona Asafo in the Central Region of Ghana. She gained the stool name Nanahemaa Menaye Afumade Afrakoma I and is the youngest developmental Queen mother ever installed in the town.
However, her enstoolment was to recognize her for her charity works, especially giving children in rural and deprived areas of the town access to free but quality education.
Honours
She made the list of 15 Most influential Africans in Canada in 2013. In 2015, she was honored with the “Woman of The Year” Award by the Infant Charity Award in Milan. She won the “Super Woman of the Year Award” at the Women’s Choice Awards 2022, and Female Most Exceptional Change Maker at the Humanitarian Awards Global 2022,