Ny'ashia Akim

Ny'ashia Akim is a fully augmented Nigerian pop star, mentioned in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Background
Akim is featured in an issue of the Picus Daily Standard. In the article it states that she swept the PlanetMusic Awards in Los Angeles, and that her latest album 'Yoruba' is about her struggles with discrimination, poverty and more recently, augmentation. The article also states that Ny'ashia was critically injured in a terrorist attack in Lagos in 2025.

At the awards she spoke out about living with augmentations, saying "As a woman of color living with augmentations in certainly a challenge. You become a stranger in every culture, and Neuropozyne is so expensive. Thank God I am blessed to be able to afford it. It is a struggle but it enables me to continue doing what I love - performing."

Trivia

 * According to the TV program listing in On-View, Akim had a concert tour called "The Steel Skin Tour". One location visited on this tour was Mombasa, Kenya.