Anne Sophie Avé


Anne-Sophie Avé is a French diplomat. From September 2018 to August 2022, she was the Ambassador of France to Ghana. From 2019 to 2021, she hosts a TV talk show in Ghana called 'Touch of France'.
She is the founder of a donor advised fund hosted by reputable international NGO . The fund aims at supporting projects for the children and youth of the communities where she has been made a Queen mother
On 31 August 2022, she was appointed Ambassador for public Diplomacy in Africa by the French president Emmanuel Macron.
Since September 2024, she is ambassador of France to Tanzania
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Early life and education

She's born in Fontainebleau to a father who is a director of a record company and a mother who is a teacher.
She grows up in Belgium and attended Lycée Français in Brussels. Anne Sophie Avé is graduate from Toulouse Business School in 1991 and attended Ecole Nationale d’administration from 2003 to 2005.

Honors and awards

She was enstooled in May 2020 as the Nkosuahemaa of Hani in the Tain District in the Bono Region with the stool name Nana Benneh III. In June 2022, she was enskinned the queen mother of Bonobutu under the chieftaincy name Napoka Amaltinga Apoka. In August 2022, she was enstooled a Queen mother of Osu under the stool name Naa Norley Owaa Oman.

Awards

  • French National order of Merit Chevalier de l’ONM
  • Knight of the Légion of Honneur
  • Diplomat of the Year 2021
  • Ambassador of the Year
  • 100 most influential change makers in Ghana
  • Discovery of the Year - 2021 Ghana Movie Awards
  • TV Show of the Year
  • Woman of the year 2022
  • Most outstanding female change maker

Criticism

On August 12, 2022, Avé's Twitter account was restricted to followers, after public criticism of a Twitter post regarding France's and, by extension, her responsibility for the enslavement of African peoples during the colonial period arose. Four days earlier, Avé had posted that "slavery is a crime against humanity, and indeed some people bought slaves but some sold them. And they were not Europeans... if you want to blame, blame all". The Tweet was a reaction to criticism of neocolonialism referring to Avé's installation as a developmental queen of Osu. The Tweet has been deleted as of August 16, 2022.

Touch Of France

A TV talk show hosted by Anne-Sophie Avé stars notable persons in Ghana and showcases France and its culture. The show was awarded "TV show of the year” at Ghana Media and Entrepreneurship Awards ceremony.