s I approached my third decade, I started feeling the pressure to find a life partner. I needed someone with whom to build our future together, but it was turning out to be more challenging than I had anticipated. I thought it would be pretty easy to find a partner who would become my best buddy and share our mutual aspirations. My last serious relationship was back in Canada and Sista Becks had made it her responsibility to try and hook me up. She was woefully unsuccessful. Finally, a mutual friend hooked me up with my wife, Freda Ayensu-Bamfo. Freda was schooling at the University of Michigan, and I was still in my PhD programme at the University of Delaware. The first time we talked on the phone, we spent hours on end, and we both didn’t want to go to bed. Even though we had a SekondiTakoradi connection and had a few friends in common, we didn’t know each other back in Ghana. The good part was, we had so much to talk about and we 30
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