Aku is a member of the Ewe tribe, born in the village of Dagbamete in the Volta Region of Ghana in West Africa. The daughter of a village priest who is also a prominent traditional psychic herbalist, Aku moved to Canada to join her husband in 1996. She is greenhouse manager of Richters Herbs in Goodwood where she lives with her husband and raised her three grown children. In 2013, Aku was installed as Queen Mother of her village in Ghana by the elders in an elaborate ceremony.
