Resilience: A Journey of Grit, Growth, and Innovation: Thomas Akwasi Baafi

Thomas Baafi was one of six siblings abandoned by his dad in a remote village in Ghana. His mum, uneducated, resorted to peasant farming and petty trade to give all her six children a better life. With so many mouths to feed, her toil began to lag as malnutrition took a toll on the health of her beloved children.

By a stroke of luck or serendipity, he was "handpicked" by Uncle Guyman, a direct elder brother of his mother, to be educated. He moved in with his uncle at a tender age, where he w...