Civil Right Activist, Religious Figure. She founded "The African Universal Church and Commercial League" in the United States in the early 20th century. The aim of the organization was to repatriate African-Americans back to the homeland of their forefathers in West Africa. She preached the Gospel along with self-help and a positive black identity. According to a newspaper article, Kofi was an African princess, the daughter of Knesiphi, one of the “seven kings” in the British West African colony of Gold Coast, now called Ghana. A passenger list documents that she arrived in New Orleans on October 18, 1926 as “Laura Koffey.” She had been a member of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, a secular movement for African-Americans, which was led by Marcus Garvey. She took some of their philosophy and added Christianity to form her group. Members of UNIA followed her when she left, which caused tension between the two groups. At one point, the police had to be called to separate the two groups. By March, she had returned to preaching after a break following the unrest. She was delivering a sermon in a Miami church when a man in the congregation pulled a gun and shot her twice in the head, killing her. While churchgoers stoned to death Maxwell Cook., the gunman, a small group of high-ranking UNIA supporters, who had arrived with the gunman, made a desperate escape from the building. Two of these men were arrested, but no conviction was made. There was much confusion about where she would be buried, and by August her remains were brought back to Jacksonville. On the trip from Miami, she had several funerals at various towns with a price being paid to view the body. Wearing a black, red and green robe, she was laid to rest in an expensive bronze casket, and placed in a mausoleum. Over 1,000 mourners attended her Jacksonville funeral. According to funeral home records, she was the wife of a Joseph Koffey, perhaps indicating Adorkor was her maiden name. A service of remembrance is held at her grave every year on the date of her death.