Born in 1971 to a Christian family of scarce resources in Tefle, Volta Region, Ghana, he always dreamed of breaking the backbone of poverty through education. At the age of 12, he received a prophecy that he would be going abroad to further his education. In 1985, at age 14, the prophecy was fulfilled but not without difficulties. After taking the exams to send students to Cuba, he placed first in his district but was unlawfully replaced by the son of the most powerful politician of the district. A concerned citizen sent him to the office of President Jerry John Rawlings, where he was allowed to participate in the national test in which he came first. This event was indeed a shock to many.
He was in Cuba for 17 years, right from junior high school to medical school and subsequently to the postgraduate specialist course in Neurosurgery. While in Cuba as a student, he continued his brilliant academic work; he won many awards including best student in Chemistry at the Cuban National Level Quizzes for 3 consecutive years where students from 35 countries then studied. He wrote an Organic Chemistry book which was meant for the preparation of high-performance students who aspired to participate in the World Olympiad of Chemistry. He graduated summa cum laude (first) in all levels of education including medical school and the Specialty of Neurosurgery. At the end of his neurosurgical training, he wrote another book in the field of Spinal Surgery called *Lumbosacral Discopathies*.
When he completed the Neurosurgical course in 2001, the people of Belize found him and took him to that country as they needed Neurosurgical Services which they had never had the privilege of enjoying locally. He performed simple and complex surgeries on many people including the elite of Belize with no surgical mortality in his 5 consecutive years of practice. In the USA, under Dr. Robert Grossman, a well-known neurosurgeon, he worked as a Clinical Research Specialist where he was invited by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons of America to present six papers at their international conferences.
In Cuba, he was directly involved in the educational system for 17 years and impacted by their health care delivery for 11 years, which can all be emulated by third world countries like Ghana who have more natural resources and foreign exchange earners than Cuba. He saw the Cuban government training thousands of students of foreign nations in different courses at the polytechnic and university levels, who then went to their home countries to contribute to their development.
He lived in Belize where he contributed to the healthcare delivery in that nation. Once in the USA, he was personally impacted by all the good things of the American system. One area is the safety network to cater for the destitute.
He saw the compassionate character of the Americans in the hospitals and churches which were the two environments he worked and worshipped in, and he saw how the two organisations would selflessly use their vacation days to go about doing good to impoverished nations, giving out their substance and technical knowhow. He was deeply touched by this and all were shaping his worldview at a subconscious level until he came to the conscious realisation that a meaningful life is not about being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being perfect… It is about being real, being humble, being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full, happy and contented life. That is the motive why, by divine grace, he has been able to abandon the lucrative and most rewarding jobs in the Diaspora and is now back home to give back to his people.
He is a Belizean and American citizen by naturalisation. After 28 years, he has decided to come back to Africa to help his people as he has come to the convincing realisation that he is more needed here than in the United States of America.