A Ghanaian boy graduated from MIT on a full scholarship.
He’s now a software engineer at Google in the Bay Area making $200K+.
This is not luck. This is not magic.
This is what happens when an African student gets the right guidance, the right schools, and the right plan.
I did it. From selling water the streets to Berea College on a full funded , to Wall Street internships at Goldman Sachs, Now a software engineer in USA.
My CTO went from humbling beginning to Netflix.
My friends did same and they are at Google, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, top hospitals, top law firms.
We’re not exceptions. We’re examples.
This is the goal of GoScholar to guide every African student from full scholarship → fully funded school → great career.
If we did it, you can too.
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i hooked my whoop to my work calendar to find which coworker gives me the most stress 🚨
thanks to fable, I reverse engineered whoop to pull per minute heart rate. nd matched spikes with cal events and attendees
I now have a leaderboard and I think about it daily.
few info masked for obvious reasons ;)
turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.
I won't stand here and sadden you with Kelvin's story, because the ending, as you'll see, is beautiful.
But when we discovered that at 9 years old he was walking 24 km a day to come to training, we decided that his dedication, beyond a scholarship, deserved something more.
Today he lives with us; for the first time, both he and his coach took a plane and came with us and 40 other kids from the Juventus Academy Ghana @JuveAcademyGh to Italy to represent our country 🇬🇭 in the Juventus Academies World Cup.
If you spend your entire life trying to improve only your own life without helping improve the lives of others, then all your achievements mean very little.
A life lived only for oneself is a life whose greatest purpose was never fulfilled.
Even at 9 years old, perseverance and determination make the difference, and Kelvin is here to teach us all that.
Justice has no borders. The United States has extradited Sedina Tamakloe Attionu to Ghana, following her conviction on 70+ corruption-related charges, including embezzling more than $6M equivalent in Ghanaian taxpayer funds. This is our strong U.S.-Ghana law enforcement partnership in action demonstrating a shared commitment to accountability, and the first extradition from the United States to Ghana since 2009. #USinGhana @GhanaMFA
Let’s be honest about what’s happening here.
Ken Agyapong was in parliament for six terms. That is roughly 24 years of salary, allowances, fuel coupons, ex-gratia, and every other benefit that comes with being a Ghanaian legislator. For 24 years the drainage was broken. For 24 years Accra flooded. For 24 years ordinary Ghanaians lost property, lost businesses, lost lives to something that functioning governance could have fixed.
Now he’s in opposition. Now he wants to be president. And suddenly he’s on social media owning failures and talking about the 7,000+ people his private business employs.
The 7,000+ jobs are real. Nobody is taking that from him. But those jobs exist because Ken Agyapong used his access, his connections, his political positioning over 24 years to build private wealth. The same system he’s now criticizing is the system that made him rich enough to employ 7,000+ people.
You cannot spend two and a half decades enriching yourself inside a broken system and then present your personal net worth as evidence that you’re ready to fix it.
This is what opposition politics looks like in Ghana. The moment they lose power, the country suddenly has problems. The moment they’re aspiring for something, they suddenly feel the people’s pain. The suffering didn’t start when they lost the election. It was there the whole time. They just had better reasons to ignore it then.
At least you owned up to your share of the problem.
They come into power, secure generational wealth, place all their children abroad in better societies, get so detached from the struggles of the average Ghanaian and boys still want to address them “with all due respect” go to hell man.