24th August 2023 2:48:17 PM
2 mins readA cobbler, Owusu Ansah, has recounted how he ended up in the profession. He revealed that despite his high level of intelligence during his formative years, his education suffered due to his father's alcoholism and lack of interest in his schooling.
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He added that during his school years, he ranked within the top ten (10) students in his class. However, his father chose to spend his money on fulfilling his alcohol addiction instead of supporting his education.
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During a conversation with Abigail Johnson on GhanaWeb TV's program "Everyday People," Owusu Ansah shared that due to his father's reluctance to fund his education, he discontinued his schooling and was compelled to fend for himself.
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“After my parents divorced, I stayed with my father for some time, and it wasn’t that I did not want to go to school; my father was a drunkard. Look, anytime we wrote exams, I was always one of the first 10 students in our school, but my father was a drunkard.
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“My stepmother was also one of the reasons my father did not take care of me. I wanted to go to school, but no one was willing to help me, which is why I ended up as a shoemaker,” he explained to the reporter.
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Owusu Ansah further disclosed that he has been a shoemaker for 17 years, and it is through that that he caters for his six children and wife.
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He went ahead to say that he believes in education, thus he would do everything in his power to see all six of his children through school so they would not end up like him.
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“Looking at my life and how I was unable to go far, I said to myself that if I didn’t work and provide my children with education, they would be like me, and I wouldn’t be proud of that. I want my children to have brighter futures than I did,” he said.
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“I want my children to be like Kofi Annan, Jerry John Rawlings, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and other great personalities, so I am also challenged to take care of them,” he added.
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