My name is Kofi Ofori. I come from Ghana, not
exactly the greatest country in the Africa, but good to be in there
nonetheless.. I was born 25 years ago to Agnes Eduayah in Adelaide, the capital
city of South Australia. I was never raised in Australia anyway. Spent most
my life in the historic, coastal town of Cape Coast, capital of the Central
region of Ghana. Over in Cape Coast, life is very tranquil. I have some very
good friends there including Sylvester, Bryne, and my lifelong pal Stephen
Batse. We've climbed all the ladders of education together. I come from a
very large extended family with lots and lots of cousins, uncles and aunties.
But I have the singular honour of being my mother's only child, which is very
flattering, because I get all the attention she can afford. And talking about my
mother, she is civil servant(for want of a better phrase) in Tampa, Florida in
the United States of America.
Education
I had my primary education in
a private school called William de-Graft preparatory in Cape Coast. A very
lovely school by the Victoria Park, which is just about 200m walk from the
famous Cape Coast Castle. My favorite teacher was Mr Yawson, who was so eager to
churn a talent out of me. Some of my mates were Alec, Fred Appiah, Lois,
Christine, Dadson, Adu-Bervell and Roger. In the Ghanaian educational
context, high school is made up of the junior secondary and senior secondary. I
had the former at Bakatsir, a top-notch but hopelessly run-down public school in
Cape Coast. I loved every bit of my three years over there. It was so much fun
with all the girls around and adolescence peeking a boo. The teachers were all
so nice but for me, Mr Sagoe stood out tops. He was such a ubiquitous soul. In
my final year, I was elected the entertainment prefect not because I could
sing(hell, Gorkeh could rap OPP in a jiffy), but in spades, that was the only
groung left for me to cover after missing out on the senior boys which I coveted
so much. Senior Secondary I did at St Augustine's College, arguably the
finest of its kind in the country. Its a Catholic single-sex institution. I was
in St Joseph's house for all of three years. I studied science, opting for
Mathematics, instead of Biology, plus Physics and Chemistry. During my time, the
headmaster was a lousy man who seemed to drink alcohol for lunch.
Eventually, I passed my final external examinations with distinction and
progress to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST),
Kumasi in middle Ghana. The 4 years in Kumasi most definitely rank among some of
the best moments of my life. I made president of Independence Hall in my final
year. I graduated with a Bachelors
in Chemical Engineering. After university, I did a year's national service
with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a government environmental
watchdog, in Cape Coast. Currently, I am in my second semester of a
three-semester MSc in Information Technology course at in the School of
Technology and Management, a University of East London affiliate in London,
United Kingdom. I'm quite handy with computers. I program in Java and quite
adept at networking.
I come from Ghana, not
exactly the greatest country in the Africa, but good to be in there
nonetheless.. I was born 25 years ago to Agnes Eduayah in Adelaide, the capital
city of South Australia. 
