Unlike his fortunate peers whose parents financed their education from the basic level to university, Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye, the newly appointed Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University for Development Studies (UDS) did not have that kind of privilege as he had to finance his entire education through farming. Prof Teye, who was the third child out of eight children, had all his other siblings going to school but he being the eldest son of his mother, had to always accompany his father to the farm. Apart from not getting support to educate himself, he had to also break an old tradition of the Krobo people that maintained that the first son was not...
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