CHAPTER 4

Excerpt from Chapter 4 (pictures below)

Chapter 4 – Part 1

One major shortfall I experienced in my early childhood was the complete lack of a consistent and effective adult male influence. My great grandmother’s household in which I grew up was female controlled. I always wished I lived in a house with just my mother, father and my other siblings. I always admired my friends who were living with their own parents.

In 1942, Mr. Emil Yaw Abunu. a building inspector (Chief Town Planner) of Obuasi Sanitary Board (O.S.B.) married my Aunt, Cecilia Turkson (Ekua Nyarkoa). Mr. Abunu had four children from a previous marriage staying with them.

The children were :

Carolina (Abena) – 9 years old.

Emil (Kwame) – 7 years old

Emmanuel (Yaw) – 5 years old

Clement (Kwesi) – 4 years old

I often went to their house to play with the children. Sometimes I intentionally continued playing with them late into the night and so auntie Ekua would ask me to sleep over…

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