Kwasi
Tawiah Addo
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Autobiography
I was born to Kwame Otchere Addo and Rose Badu Ampong at 1:45am on Sunday, April 8, 1973. This was in a town called Agogo (in the Asante-Akim district of Ashanti region in Ghana) where my mother worked as a midwife at the district hospital. I was the last in a family of seven. A couple of years later, my parents divorced and the family moved to Kumasi where I started school. My first school was Garrison Preparatory, a school established in a military barracks based in Kumasi. In the subsequent years of my early childhood, I had to change schools; first to Central International School and then on to Peter’s Educational Centre - private schools based in Kumasi. I always maintained high academic excellence and took part in several quiz competitions for my school.
In 1987, I got the best results in my school in the Common Entrance Examinations (the requisite examination for entry into secondary school at the time) and gained admission into Prempeh College (Kumasi, Ghana). At Prempeh College, hard work coupled with discipline brought out the best in me. By the time I was in my third year, I was academically outstanding in my year group. In 1992, I became the best science student in the O-level examinations. Continuing with sixth form studies in the same year, I played several leadership roles in students’ associations. In fact, I was later to become the senior school prefect from 1993 to 1994. After obtaining my A-level certificate from Prempeh College in 1994, I did the national service as a chemistry teacher in a secondary school in a town in the central region of Ghana. However, owing to a national strike action by university lecturers that lasted a year, my entry into university was delayed till August 1996 when I started studying at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana) for a degree in Materials Science and Engineering. While on campus, I continued to be active in many clubs and organizations. At the end of my bachelor degree, I got the opportunity of undertaking a 3-month internship, through IAESTE, in Germany.
On completion of the internship, I started (in October 2000) a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences, Muenster (Germany). Keeping the faith as a team player, I was a member of a students’ group called the “Welcome Service for foreign students”. This was a group that helped to facilitate life for foreign students studying in the university. I successfully completed my studies and obtained the Master’s degree in November 2002. From February 2003 to July 2003, I worked as a part-time Research assistant at the Chemical engineering department of my former university, working on “Dynamic Simulation of Equilibrium Reactions in Discontinuously and Continuously Processed Membrane Reactors”.
"An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others." - Napoleon Hill
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