The Importance Of My Grandparents In Ghana

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Reputation is everything to most families in Ghana. My grandparents have always defended their reputation for decades. This has created a culture whereby the opinions of others about the family matters more than the actual reality. Living under such circumstances raises expectations and forces an individual to live by the dictates of society. It creates an identity crisis because you become who society expects you to be rather than finding your true self. In the early sixties, during the exodus of professionals from Ghana to Nigeria, my grandparents left Ghana with my mother to Nigeria. My mother became pregnant with me at age fifteen in Nigeria and to protect the family image, she was sent back to Ghana by my grandparents to live in Ghana with a family friend. My dad was never informed and to this day he has no idea I exist. My Grandparents moved back to Ghana about three years after this incident. Growing up as a kid, I was under the impression that my grandparents were my parents. At the age 8 when I found …show more content…

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