Shamfa Cudjoe

Shamfa Ashaki Cudjoe (born 1982) is a Trinidad and Tobago politician representing the People's National Movement (PNM). She served as the Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for Tobago West from the 2015 general election until 2025. She was the Minister of Sport and Community Development until April 2025.

Early life Cudjoe was born in 1982 as the fourth of eight children. Her mother, Wilma Warner-Cudjoe, is from Mason Hall and her father, Jeffrey Cudjoe, is from Bethel. She attended the Mason Hall and Montgomery Government Primary Schools, the Scarborough Methodist Primary School, the Scarborough Junior Secondary School and Signal Hill Senior Comprehensive School. When she was seventeen, she attended the first World Youth Congress in Hawaii in 1999 as a member of the Caribbean delegation.

In 2006, she received her bachelor's degree in international affairs from Bethune-Cookman College in Florida, United States. She was appointed as the Minister of Sport and Community Development on 19 August 2020.

Personal life Cudjoe is a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and the founder of the Pink Diamond Society for Ladies Incorporated.

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