From Janitor to Neurosurgery: The inspiring story of Dr Kwadwo Sarpong

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Koo Pia 19 hours ago

Congratulations.

Congratulations.
Dr Mumbi Seraki 18 hours ago

Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.....for instance 15 paracetamol at once. .. ... Or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide

Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.....for instance 15 paracetamol at once. .. ... Or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide
Karikakchar 15 hours ago

It maybe a great story but has too many gaps making it difficult to follow. By the way what's a medical degree?

It maybe a great story but has too many gaps making it difficult to follow. By the way what's a medical degree?
Hunter 14 hours ago

THAT IS THE AKAN SPIRIT!!!

FROM NOTHING TO SOMETHING SPECIAL. JANITOR TO NEUROSURGERY. FROM SELLING CASSETE TO MILLIONAIRE. FROM SCHOOL DROPOUT TO GLOBAL PASTOR. AND A LOT MORE.

MY AKAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS OUT THERE NO ...
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THAT IS THE AKAN SPIRIT!!!

FROM NOTHING TO SOMETHING SPECIAL. JANITOR TO NEUROSURGERY. FROM SELLING CASSETE TO MILLIONAIRE. FROM SCHOOL DROPOUT TO GLOBAL PASTOR. AND A LOT MORE.

MY AKAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS OUT THERE NO MATTER HOW TOUGH THE FIGHT IS. NO MATTER HOW TOUGH LIFE IS. DONT GIVE UP!!! KEEP PUSHING HARD AND STRONGER. VICTIRY WILL BE YOURS!!
ALWAYS REMEMBER WHERE YOU COME FROM AND THE FIGHTS OUR ANCESTORS AND FOREFATHERS FOUGHT TO BRING US WHERE WE ARE NOW. DONT GIVE UP!!

EVERY AKAN PERSON WILL BE SUCCESSFUL!!! THE SPIRITS OF THE SEVEN CLANS ARE ALWAYS BEHIND US!!!
A 15 hours ago

What was the man's educational background b4 migrating to USA? What did he study b4 going to the USA? The entire story is incomplete.

What was the man's educational background b4 migrating to USA? What did he study b4 going to the USA? The entire story is incomplete.
Owan Yaw aka Lisiemine Ubi 15 hours ago

What substance will that add to the fact that he started as a janitor and he is now a neurosurgeon? Your question makes no sense to the storyline.

What substance will that add to the fact that he started as a janitor and he is now a neurosurgeon? Your question makes no sense to the storyline.
Johnny 13 hours ago

Not so sensible.From 2010 to 2025 is just 15yrs, a novice cannot easily become a neurosurgeon within that period. We need the full story b4 we can be inspired. America is not a place for magicians if you care to know.

Not so sensible.From 2010 to 2025 is just 15yrs, a novice cannot easily become a neurosurgeon within that period. We need the full story b4 we can be inspired. America is not a place for magicians if you care to know.
Aponky B33 18 hours ago

And so what? Nonsense

And so what? Nonsense
Akwaaba 18 hours ago

I knew a wild goat like you will surely bleat loud over here.

I knew a wild goat like you will surely bleat loud over here.
Nzema K 18 hours ago

These are the stories we want to read.. congratulations my brother

These are the stories we want to read.. congratulations my brother

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AK 17 hours ago

Congratulations. I hope many immigrants will learn from you. Many Ghanaians in the US have similar stories.

Congratulations. I hope many immigrants will learn from you. Many Ghanaians in the US have similar stories.
Nana ray 17 hours ago

Nice inspiring story

Nice inspiring story
Kevin USA 17 hours ago

Ghanaian don't listen to this fake story. They always package it as great achievements but behind the scenes, they cried and can't even pay their mortgage, students loans and credit card bills working three jobs and jumping f ...
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Ghanaian don't listen to this fake story. They always package it as great achievements but behind the scenes, they cried and can't even pay their mortgage, students loans and credit card bills working three jobs and jumping from pay check to pay check. Educate is good. If you are the USA and you have document to work, get a stable job, build your credit, buy a two family house, rent it out and let your tenant pay your mortgage for you. Evaluate your stable job you are doing. Look for certification courses, pay out of your pocket to do it. And enjoy your life with your family. Most Ghanaian in America are running to school and because they don't understand the market economy, they took the big student loans, finance big cars announcing i am a Doctor, Nurse etc but at the end of the day, an ordinary CNA who understood the system is happily living their life to the fullest and Nurses are sleeping at the same hospital for 12 to 16 hours every day. Don't allow this decorated monkeys to fool you. All is not well with them
Grandpa 16 hours ago

Full of wisdom I can feel that bro

Full of wisdom I can feel that bro
Owan Yaw aka Lisiemine Ubi 15 hours ago

Either you’re a fraud or you lack sense. Or maybe you’re just a ‘skin pain’. A CNA’s 8 hour check might equate to a 2 hour RN check in many instances. Grow up and have some wisdom.

Either you’re a fraud or you lack sense. Or maybe you’re just a ‘skin pain’. A CNA’s 8 hour check might equate to a 2 hour RN check in many instances. Grow up and have some wisdom.
Obiba 16 hours ago

This is inspiring, and the kind of things we want to hear. Congratulations, brother. You didn't use your brain to scam people rather, you put it to use positively. Thank you for bringing honor to your family and to Ghana. God ...
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This is inspiring, and the kind of things we want to hear. Congratulations, brother. You didn't use your brain to scam people rather, you put it to use positively. Thank you for bringing honor to your family and to Ghana. God bless you.
Kk 15 hours ago

This is only possible in US and not in UK

This is only possible in US and not in UK
Prudhomme - Great but nothing unusual 14 hours ago

While I congratulate this brother, I wish to reiterate that this is the usual path to success in the USA and elsewhere in the civilized world.

No African successful person in the diaspora jumped into success right on arriv ...
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While I congratulate this brother, I wish to reiterate that this is the usual path to success in the USA and elsewhere in the civilized world.

No African successful person in the diaspora jumped into success right on arrival. You definitely have to start from the buttom up.

I am a product of such pathway and so are all my friends and family in the USA, Canada, and elsewhere.
Owan Yaw aka Lisiemine Ubi 14 hours ago

Many in North America (USA and Canada) will identify with the path to your upward mobility. Where I disagree is with your conclusion that this is “not unusual”. There are many more who have resigned their fate to pursuing ...
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Many in North America (USA and Canada) will identify with the path to your upward mobility. Where I disagree is with your conclusion that this is “not unusual”. There are many more who have resigned their fate to pursuing unrewarding pathways. So then, many kudos to this who do not allow the system to define them. This is absolutely a great accomplishment by all standards.

Owan Yaw aka Lisiemine Ubi 14 hours ago

many kudos to those ..

many kudos to those ..
MAJORITY OF STUDENTS DO MENIAL JOBS FOR POCKET MONEY! 14 hours ago

This is no biggie. I cleaned hotwl rooms in London, worked in sandwich making factorirs to get some pocket money for the disco entrance fee, and a little bit for McDonalds with the girlfriend so i can jiggy jiggy her that we ...
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This is no biggie. I cleaned hotwl rooms in London, worked in sandwich making factorirs to get some pocket money for the disco entrance fee, and a little bit for McDonalds with the girlfriend so i can jiggy jiggy her that weekend.

In these type of jobs i made friends from Nigeria, Siwrra Leone, Gambia, Ivory Coast etc.

That did not stop ne from successfully acquiring my Law Degree. Honestly, i dont even see it as something exceptional. Holiday jobs are part of student life in the UK, US and Europe.

If he says I grew up from a village in Tuobidom with no zhows and has to walk 3km evdrday fighting snakes and grasscutters along the way to school so determined and still passrd my WASSCE on an empty stomach to gain a Schorlaship to become a neurosurgeon then i will stand up, salute you and bow down before you.

But doibg what majority of students in Europe or US does in their daily student life is nothing to write about.
Asempapa 11 hours ago

Well spoken deep with alot of wisdom. I am just a licensed Recovery specialist. No student loan. As Kevin already stated, I didn't follow the Ghanaian competitive mindset of rushing to get student loan or rushing to buy singl ...
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Well spoken deep with alot of wisdom. I am just a licensed Recovery specialist. No student loan. As Kevin already stated, I didn't follow the Ghanaian competitive mindset of rushing to get student loan or rushing to buy single family. I bought my first two family and second three family and now have my last single family house. Now the stream of income is flowing. I don't pay no student loan. My two properties are paying all my three own properties. My pay check from my job is not under pressure. I don't sleep at work over 8 hours as this Doctors and RN are running around trying to pay their bills. Education is good but remember, this is a market economy. You have to be smart. If someone in Ghana with their economy had achieved this? Of course we shall congratulate them. Not you going for a loan that you can't pay back before you relocate to Ghana
Brute 11 hours ago

Once again, some names that go like: Agbovi, Tiavitor, Bobivu, Dadifui, Dafamekpor will not be happy about this news since this hero is not one of their own, and the comments from them will be those of bitterness.

Once again, some names that go like: Agbovi, Tiavitor, Bobivu, Dadifui, Dafamekpor will not be happy about this news since this hero is not one of their own, and the comments from them will be those of bitterness.
Asempapa 11 hours ago

Hero? Borrowing money to go to school and became a slave to the lender. You called this hero. Master this is no achievement. If he achieved this through scholarship as few of our Ghanaian born in USA are doing now going into ...
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Hero? Borrowing money to go to school and became a slave to the lender. You called this hero. Master this is no achievement. If he achieved this through scholarship as few of our Ghanaian born in USA are doing now going into IT, Engeenering and Doctors, of course. They aren't going to be a slave to uncle sam. Grow up my people. We rush to signed up for student loan because everyone is going to school, so I have to also go. Now after spending the loan. You don't even have a job. We rush to buy single family to show off, while others started with two family with same status of first home buyer. Now we can't pay our mortgage and we are all over the place. While others lived in the same two family houses dealing with tenant who can't refuse to pay your mortgage while living there free. Even with your student loan degree. You don't even know this common basic. AMERICA IS BIG. THIS ACHIEVEMENT IS NO NEWS
KOFI NYANSA 4 hours ago

Wow, this is raw and pure wisdom, majority US INCLUDING ME MISSED THIS WUSDOM. WOW

Wow, this is raw and pure wisdom, majority US INCLUDING ME MISSED THIS WUSDOM. WOW
Akora 10 hours ago

Janitorial job is a big time job ok

Do you know how much janitors earn?

Janitorial job is a big time job ok

Do you know how much janitors earn?
SANTROFIE 6 hours ago

BRAVO YOUNG DOCTOR!

BRAVO YOUNG DOCTOR!
Erik 3 hours ago

Worth to be celebrated by lifting high the flag of Ghana

Worth to be celebrated by lifting high the flag of Ghana
Rose 1 hour ago

I beg when return to Gh make you no come do politics ooo if no be so your name go spoil

I beg when return to Gh make you no come do politics ooo if no be so your name go spoil

Nana K 1 hour ago

Congratulations!
Thank you, America.

Congratulations!
Thank you, America.

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