“Let me go back a little. When they returned to Ghana your parents soon realized that your grandfather was never going to recover his fortune. They both got jobs and set about trying to save enough money for one of them to return to the States to collect you. To the best of my knowledge they never did succeed in accumulating the funds they needed. In the course of time your grandfather not only exhausted his remaining capital but also became senile. Perhaps it was his troubles, his frustrated dreams of a peaceful and prosperous and respectable retirement that drove him into a second childhood. So the old folks became a further burden on Kwadwo and Abena’s finances. Life was a struggle for them. To their credit they managed, somehow, to give Kwaku the best education on offer in Kumase at th
