Designed by me
The ups and downs tamed me into who I am today, from childhood to my teens to me right now.
Being born in Tamale Teaching Hospital and nurtured in Savelugu made me understand that the world needs to be perceived through multiple lenses.
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The was no electricity where I spent the early times of my childhood and I remember the times we had to sleep in the compound of our house because the room was just too warm to sleep in.
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There were times we had to set fire in our rooms so we could sleep soundly because the place was just too cold.
Schooling was tough here at that time as everyone never saw the importance of it, we had to eat before going to school and come back home when it was break time so we could eat leftover food before returning to school.
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It was funny no matter how you look at it, all we knew was to make noise and sleep in school, we practically weren’t taught anything there but we kept on going.
I remember there was a time when a new teacher had come taken over our class and bought slates for all of us so she could teach us writing.
She did teach us quite a lot (My handwriting is a still mess though 😂). Life in Savelugu was okay just that technology had gotten there a little late 😪.
My mother then took me to the capital town of Ghana(Accra) for us to stay there, she was a trader who sold Ponmo in Madina market.
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We got there and stayed at our family house over there where they dealt in trading livestock for a living. That place is where I had a lot of memories and met my best friend too.
The school I went to there was a good one, as the time I went there I couldn’t even spell my name. An aunt taught me how my name was spelled and I kept it at the back of my mind to date.
In school, I was kept in primary school 1, where I practically started school from scratch because my foundations were very poor.
My mom later gave me to my uncle to raise me, this place is where I learned how to cook rice and many kinds of it, so started to wash my clothes and iron them.
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My uncle’s wife then sat me down and taught me how to read from scratch, from the English alphabet to basic mathematics. This went on for a long while.
She didn’t only teach me how to how identify and to write the alphabet, she taught me to memorize and write them off the head, I remember when she bought a picture book where I had to memorize the pictures and their spellings so I spell them off the head.
I spent a few years there and I must say that all credit for my educational journey goes to the women who pushed me past my limits and broadened my horizon.
I finally left Accra for Tamale to continue my life there this happened in 2009. I wasn’t quite happy about it as I was tricked into going back to a tamale.
My teens happened in Tamale, I was young then very young at that time. I was sent to a government school to start all over again but the school authorities said I was intelligent enough to be in Primary 6 yet my dad said no and made them admit me to primary 3.
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Life went on like a dream as everything happened overnight, the friends I had made, the struggles we had been through, the beating we had received from the school.
It was time for us to be admitted to Junior High School, we were happy and went there for the next target which was Senior High School.
At that time, my parents had gone back to Savelugu leaving me alone in Tamale, I had to cook, wash, and send myself to the hospital whenever I got sick and had to take good care of myself. This was when life got real with me, I knew I was alone and school was the way out for me so I took my studies seriously.
Fast forward, we were in Junior High School 3 and I was the assistant School Prefect, I was well known for my intelligence and demeanor. I was called The Wizard of Science by my mates which spread to the whole school.
We wrote our BECE exam and I passed and was placed in Ghana Senior High School and was given General Science as my program of study.
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I’m Ghanasaco, it wasn’t easy, with Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and Elective Mathematics, it was tough being a science student as we had to learn more than other people because we knew what was at stake.
It was there I made some good friends till now, we always took it a point to have fun whenever we had the chance, and also caused a bit of trouble from time to time 😏
I took a liking to Handball 🤾♀️ and took playing it seriously, I was later the Assistant handball captain of the school. All that while in school, there were days I had nothing, not even a dime to buy a sachet of water talk less of food.
There were days I looked up to the heavens for any miracle that could come my way, life wasn’t easy, not at all, not like how Senior high schools were portrayed in the movies. I had to understand that I keep my head straight and not back down.
All the struggles I endured were never wasted as when we wrote our WASSSE I had passed and looked forward to tertiary education.
I applied to study computer science at the University for Development Studies(UDS) I was given a Diploma in Computer Science which I took wholeheartedly and went on to pursue my career in computers.
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The campus is at Navrongo in Ghana, a place where I can swear the sun is located 10 km from it 😪😂 and prices of goods are hitting the heavens.
Studying on Navrongo is not fun at all, all day learning and never playing a bit. It’s all about lectures and seriousness.
With the hard work I kept in, I graduated and when for a top-up for my bachelor's in Computer Science.
I’m currently a level 400 BSc in Computer Science and also the Computer Science Society President of the Computer Science department.
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The struggles continue, there were days I and @depressedfuckup had to sleep with empty stomachs in our room on campus. Days where we had enough to stuff our kitchen with foodstuff, days where we had to drink tea more than six times a day just because there was nothing to eat.
But everything that has happened to me in my life gives me the resolve and motivation to push forward till no wall blocks my stance.
I was never born with a silver spoon, I was taught to eat with my bare hands.
Silver shines, but it’s just another metal