Nana Adjaloo

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Odyssey of Akyemkwaa (eBook, ePUB)

The Story of a Ghanaian Immigrant

Beschreibung

This Memoir, Odyssey of Akyemkwaa, is a coming-of-age story written with finesse and encompasses narrations which evoke scenes in a documentary movie. The main character, Siam Erzuah, is a Sales Representative working for the Sheehy Auto Group in Alexandria, Virginia. Encouraged by his appreciative customers as well as others, he reveals his personal life stories with a surprising flair of an accomplished story teller. From the beginning, the book takes the reader to the Village of Agona Mankrong in Ghana where Erzuah was born. In the early stages of his life, he becomes conscious of his parents constant financial woes. As a result, he decides not to follow their subsistence farming occupation (his father also had an additional job as a Field Assistant for the Ministry of Agriculture helping Cocoa farmers). In succinct language, the book portrays Erzuah as having a profound distaste for subsistence farming out of various reasons including his morbid fear of snakes. Hence, he decides to take the education route to have a better job in the future. Despite the desire to be educated, the book tells of how Erzuah almost had his secondary school admission cancelled because of prolonged sickness and subsequent death of his elder brothera situation which causes his parents to be financially incapacitated. Out of desperation, his parents want to postpone his education, but Erzuah will hear none of it! His insistence on going to school forces his father to ask for help from his friend, a move that causes Erzuah to end up in a virtual domestic slavery. Throughout his secondary and college education, the book traces Erzuahs struggles and progress with candor and humor. At one point, he is cornered and beaten up by a student gang of five for no reason. On another occasion, he steals a roasted plantain when he could not contain his hunger anymore, but gets caught and punished. His first job at Ghanas Bureau of National Investigations, and subsequent travel to the United States caps a life full of drama, successes, failures, and also determination. As a coming-of-age story, Odyssey of Akyemkwaa represents the archetypal rite-de-passage experienced by the average male growing up in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is a life story often times seen only on TVs in America and other Western Countries. This is a must read book for all adults, college students, and those who find themselves under unbearable stress in life.

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• Größe: 0.74MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Nana Adjaloo is a Writer, Mentor, Sales Consultant, and Philanthropist. The fourth of six children, he was born to Mr. Mohammed E. Siam and Madam Comfort Nuro in 1964 at Agona Mankrong, a village located in the Central Region of Ghana. In his adolescent and teenage years, Adjaloo experienced series of health issues including spinal disc problems. His incessant complaints of body itching was diagnosed in later years to be a case of ichthyosis. In spite of all, Adjaloo persisted in life and after his primary and secondary education, succeeded in gaining admission to the Ghana Institute of Journalism. After graduating with a diploma in Journalism in 1990, he joined Ghana's counter Intelligence Agency, the Bureau of National Investigations, where he worked as a Field and Desk Officer for six years. In 1996, Adjaloo tried his luck and won a Diversity Visa Lottery organized by the US State Department. He resigned from his job in November 1997 and, together with his wife Christiana Ampah, left Ghana for the United States With a desire to further his education, Adjaloo went back to school in the US and obtained a degree in Criminal Justice in 2012, as well as a diploma in Information Technology Support. His goal to attend Law school or, as an alternative, pursue his education to the Doctorate level suffered a setback when he went through a life-altering divorce and was forced to regroup and restart his life. Adjaloo is now re-married and works in Alexandria Virginia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504971409
• Artikelnr.: 52604895