Bonsu's Magazine

At the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on October 11th, 1973, I made my grand entrance into the world, loudly announcing my arrival as if someone had swiped my millions. My dad, Augustus Osei-Tutu (now Nana Darko Mpra II and Senior Linguist to Otumfour Osei Tutu), beamed with pride as he proclaimed, “That is a healthy boy!” My mother, Agatha Osei-Tutu, cradled her bouncing baby boy, the third of her sons.

When I was three years old, we returned to Ghana, and my earliest memories are from Asokwa, where we settled. My childhood was a joy, surrounded …