Dr Adjei Sarfo joins New Statesman (I want all my friends, especially fellow SEDATCANS, to read the first edition, as well as subsequent editions, of the weekly column of renowned former English tutor, Obemfo Adjei Sarfo, now a doctor of jurisprudence based at the US. Get today’s edition of my paper. ) Below are excerpts of the maiden article of the column ‘THOUGHTS OF A NATIVE SON’ My first day in the first year class was when I met Kwabena. That encounter was a near-death experience for my career as an English teacher……. I was a more confident teacher by then, having performed excellently as a student and Teaching/Research Assistant at the University of Cape Coast; so I entered the class with some air of infallibility and wrote on the board for discussion the essay topic, “Our Role as Teachers in the Upliftment of the Ghanaian Society”. All at once, a hand shot up from the rear of the first row of desks to my right: “Yes……What is your name, young man?” “Kwabena Amankwah” “And what is your problem, Kwabena?” “Sir, there is no word like “upliftment” in the English language!”
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