Dorinda Hafner (born 1947) is a Ghanaian-born Australian author, actress, dancer, choreographer, public speaker, writer and television chef, She is also an optician and registered nurse[1] Hafner was born in 1947 in Ghana, when it was still a British crown colony called Ashanti.
She won a scholarship to the Wesley Girls' Senior High School, Cape Coast, Ghana, where her education taught her more about the British royal family and Europe than Africa and she was influenced by its Methodist ethos.
At that time, there were very few people of African descent in Adelaide, and she was met with a lot of misunderstanding, and mostly "just annoying and stupid" discrimination rather than deliberate racism.
The others in the group were Pitjantjatjara dancer/actor Lillian Crombie, African-American dancer and choreographer Aku Kadogo, and Jamaican Jigzie Campbell.
[3] She worked as a television chef and presenter with Bert Newton on Good Morning Australia for ten years.