Afia Pokua, popularly known as Vim Lady, is one of the forces to reckon
with when it comes to the influential voices on the Ghanaian airwaves in
this generation. However, she went through thick and thin to be where
she is today.
Narrating her sad and inspiring story of how she came from a very
humble home, yet determined to succeed, Afia Pokua revealed that at a
point in her life, she had to be a maidservant in pursuit of High school
education.
Recounting her early life story during an interview on Hitz FM,
monitored by pulse.com.gh, the Adom FM presenter, said she brilliantly
passed her B.E.C.E and gained admission in Labone Secondary School.
However, Afia, who says she was living in Tema by then, was not
admitted in the school as a boarder, therefore, how to be commuting from
Tema to Accra to the school every day became a herculean task because
her parents weren’t rich too.
Speaking with Andy Andy Dosty, the host of the show, Vim Lady said her
uneducated father was desperate for his children to be educated,
therefore, after all, attempts to get her an accommodation on the campus
failed, he walked into a nearby orphanage to offer her as a maidservant
to the caretaker.
“So my father is walking there and he sees Osu Children’s Home … he
walks there and says I have a daughter who has gotten admission here but
hasn’t gotten boarding so I want her to come live with you like a
maidservant. She can cook, she can clean so that she can go to school
too and then the woman accepted” pulse.com.gh heard her say.
According to Vim Lady, she lived with this said woman she didn’t even
know throughout her entire secondary school time. However, she added
that she felt like an orphan who was given away but when she casts her
mind back, she understands why her Dad made such a tough decision.
Afia added that she staying in the orphanage’s bungalow was the first
time she ever had a room for herself but that came with a lot of work to
keep the house clean whilst being a student in Labone.
Saturday, 11 May 2019
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