THE PROMISE OF A BOY FROM JANGA






Our world is full of life maddening circumstances that has made many to have given up not only on themselves but on life itself as a whole and when you hear some of the untold stories you can honestly come to terms with why many people especially young people are continually not able to triumph and are not reaching their fullest potential.

Nevertheless our world and for that matter humanity has equally proven itself of being the inspiration that we can find in others at least if not in ourselves to scale the numerous challenges that confronts our development. So is the PROMISE OF A BOY FROM JANGA, Dr. Kabiru Tia Mahama.

Born to parents who never attended school and would have to farm and go to school at the same time in a village without electricity nor telecommunication network, the then Kabiru Mahama now Dr. Kabiru Mahama who was only able to learn how to read at primary 5 in a school with only two teachers to take close to 300 students at different levels through a 3 years program and will most times have to come from farm stay on Sunday to start exams on Monday yet managed to get the second best grade award is the man whose life and journey has now become the muse not only to folks from his village but to the entire world.

From his Janga village school he proceeded to another less endowed Senior High School, the Nalerigu SHS. Despite the challenges of infrastructure and human resource in that school, he once again distinguished himself and recorded among the best students that year. Proceeded to the University for Development Studies (UDS) in Wa for his Bachelor in Economics and Entrepreneurship and later MPhil in Development Studies.

Kabiru Mahama after his MPhil won a Japanese Government Scholarship for a PhD and bagged two major awards during the study, the Hiroshima University Excellent Student Award and the Hiroshima University Award for outstanding student research. The latter being for a publication in an international referred journal.

Right from his childhood Kabiru deeply appreciated that leadership as an opportunity to serve is the panacea to addressing the numerous fundamental challenges of people, being serious with books never discouraged him to volunteer part of his time to concern himself with the welfare of his colleagues and his leadership qualities was well established at a very young age where he became the Assistant Prefect at primary school, Health Prefect at the JHS, President of Anti-HIV club at SHS, Northern Student Union organizer at UDS-Wa, Secretary of GMSA, UDS- Wa, General Secretary of SRC, UDS, NASPA President for Tamale Metro, NASPA President for Northern Region, NASPA National President, GRASSAG Vice President for UDS, National GRASSAG Constitutional Review Chairman among other distinguished roles he has played in and out of the country.

It feels like it was just yesterday when as Regional and National Officers of NASPA we sat together somewhere in Kumasi and talked ourselves of great dreams into the future and how we laid emphasis on the continuous building of our capacities in order not to disappoint the masses when we are passed the baton of the leadership of this country.

I am a happy man today as I have always been of that noble group of the giant steps each of us are making, with the touch light today on Kabiru Tia  Mahama who has received the distinguished honours of a PhD in Development Economics from the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation at Hiroshima University.

In Kabiru our world is once again gifted with the kind of motivation that is needed to spark the light in the life of those who find themselves in the lowest stage of their life, truly it doesn’t matter from whence you came or the colour of your skin, your faith or nationality for Kabiru has made us witnesses of the fact that yes a boy from Janga in the West Mamprusi District of Ghana from a poor background born to uneducated parents, who has to farm and school at the same time in a village that has no electricity nor telecommunication network can rise from such humble beginning to the eminence of a scholar.

This is nothing but a Promise, one to our world especially those who are battling with different challenging situations to always remember and be inspired that truly it is possible to rise from dust to grace.

Brother, you have made us proud and we await your arrival to receive you in accordance with all the traditions and rituals.

Let us continue to build circles in which we hold one another in the highest future intentions.

Cedric Dzelu
World YMCA CHANGE AGENT
cedricdzelu@gmail.com


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