KSM: From an ‘F’ student to a world class satirist

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mark 11 years ago

wow....it is guuuuuuuud to know that most successful pple have ever fallen flat to d ground. ....

wat made d difference is d fact dat the saw d guuuuuuuuuud of their failures and realized dat they can make it.

I'm encou ...
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wow....it is guuuuuuuud to know that most successful pple have ever fallen flat to d ground. ....

wat made d difference is d fact dat the saw d guuuuuuuuuud of their failures and realized dat they can make it.

I'm encouraged and inspired about all dat I have heard, seen and read about these pple. I'm yet to sit with some of them to hear from them.

bless u
quolo vi 11 years ago

Was you dad Rev.Sintim Misa? You were hot headed.Even poeple passed at Nkodwo Secondary with no parents and bad school

Was you dad Rev.Sintim Misa? You were hot headed.Even poeple passed at Nkodwo Secondary with no parents and bad school
quolo vi 11 years ago

How

How
cute shay 11 years ago

Omg are you freaking kidding me? What kind of analysis is this? You can be born into the poorest family on Ghana and be a nerd and be born into the richest family and be academically challenged. Every person has one great thi ...
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Omg are you freaking kidding me? What kind of analysis is this? You can be born into the poorest family on Ghana and be a nerd and be born into the richest family and be academically challenged. Every person has one great thing they may be good at, obviously he came out good. Not everyone who goes to a big school get all good grades and vice versa. His dad was a Reverend so he should have got all A's, gosh that sounds so stupid. Ahhhh
Miss 11 years ago

Check your spellings.

Check your spellings.
cute shay 11 years ago

Smart phone swype making me lazy,I cringe when I see lots of misspelled words also, so I got it girl

Smart phone swype making me lazy,I cringe when I see lots of misspelled words also, so I got it girl
Norsaid 11 years ago

Failure is always a good motivation for someone to rise. Psychologically, one would want to prove to others that hey i hv something great in me. But this seems to work well for ppl from already achieved families.
Most ppl f ...
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Failure is always a good motivation for someone to rise. Psychologically, one would want to prove to others that hey i hv something great in me. But this seems to work well for ppl from already achieved families.
Most ppl from poor backgrounds are likely to accept and resign themselves to failure, after all they hv not had any better experience.
Imagine that KSM was to struggle to fend for himself, his poor parents and siblings at the village, make career, and raise family.
Anyway congratulations KSM. You hv made.
cute shay 11 years ago

And most Ghanaian students are lazy, and then blame it on poverty. My brother in law lost both parents at a tender age in the village, went to school in the village, with no lights whiles fending for himself and is now a head ...
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And most Ghanaian students are lazy, and then blame it on poverty. My brother in law lost both parents at a tender age in the village, went to school in the village, with no lights whiles fending for himself and is now a heading a great pharmaceutical company in London. And I have exes who had it super rough growing up and are now doing so great. In America most students work and go to school, but in Ghana we just got to stay on school and we still complain. I know getting a job back in Ghana is hard, but you just gotta try. We exhibit a lackadaisical attitude towards education, and then we always looking for help help help and we prone to blaming our failures on oh I'm from a poor family, didn't have this or that, heck I'm from a poor family too, my parents didn't go to school also and all their children have turned out great, so enough with the excuses already.
DEEP THOUGHT 11 years ago

You are 100% right.

You are 100% right.
never give up 11 years ago

in the ring there's nothing wrong with falling into the ground but staying there is where the problem is. M Ali

in the ring there's nothing wrong with falling into the ground but staying there is where the problem is. M Ali

Kroos 11 years ago

Prempeh is a Bankye Ekurasi school that's why he failed

Prempeh is a Bankye Ekurasi school that's why he failed
cute shay 11 years ago

Jealousy papa, just coz you were denied admission, so you still holding a grudge against them? Fyi former president Kufour is an old student of the great prempeh college. .boooooo you such a sour loser

Jealousy papa, just coz you were denied admission, so you still holding a grudge against them? Fyi former president Kufour is an old student of the great prempeh college. .boooooo you such a sour loser
kroos 11 years ago

go to Prempeh for what? first of all i had 11 ones in my BECE and got full admission to the greatest school in Ghana: Mfantsipim. there are only five schools in Ghana and they rank like this:
Mfantsipim
Achimota
Augusco
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go to Prempeh for what? first of all i had 11 ones in my BECE and got full admission to the greatest school in Ghana: Mfantsipim. there are only five schools in Ghana and they rank like this:
Mfantsipim
Achimota
Augusco
Accra Aca
Adisco
the rest are just pretenders and newcomers!

The achievement of these schools are unmatched. it willl stay like that next 100 hundred years
Appiah. r/c 11 years ago

can everyone go to these schools. the blessing of God makes riches and not Harvard university.

can everyone go to these schools. the blessing of God makes riches and not Harvard university.
cute shay 11 years ago

Thank you Appiah. Even some of the richest people in Ghana didn't even go to school, and they hire graduates in their companies. I bet some of those graduates are from the great schools. At the end of the day, you are your ow ...
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Thank you Appiah. Even some of the richest people in Ghana didn't even go to school, and they hire graduates in their companies. I bet some of those graduates are from the great schools. At the end of the day, you are your own success story, not the school you attended, childish
cute shay 11 years ago

You do love Ghana so much. There are only 5 great schools in your country and the others are pretenders right? Don't repeat this to anyone else, let it end here. Ghanaians are our own enemies that's why we don't improve. My e ...
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You do love Ghana so much. There are only 5 great schools in your country and the others are pretenders right? Don't repeat this to anyone else, let it end here. Ghanaians are our own enemies that's why we don't improve. My ex boyfriend attended mfantsipim and he is super smart, so I love that school. I can't believe you attended mfantsipim and wrote this sad list, so Wesley girls, saint roses, saint Louis, Yaa asantewa, aburi girls, need I mention more are pretenders as much as they are producing great people in all professions? And even how are they pretenders? Oh Awurade...and that last part is like cursing all other schools in your own country, you don't wish for Ghana to improve in education. We have that tendency to pray nobody gets to our level and that's sad, we should cheer one another on as a people. I feel so proud and happy when I meet successful Ghanaians. We have a long way to go. And oh I had 10 ones, at that time, we were only doing 10 subjects, thought I'd throw that in, and I didn't choose any of those your 5 great schools which are sex biased anyway, you know what I mean, smh
kroos 11 years ago

It's not personal I was just stating fact. And oh I love the girls schools as well. Gey Hey, Holico, st. Rose', Aburi girls etc are all great school. What I said wasn't a dig at anyone I just feel like those 5 schools have ac ...
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It's not personal I was just stating fact. And oh I love the girls schools as well. Gey Hey, Holico, st. Rose', Aburi girls etc are all great school. What I said wasn't a dig at anyone I just feel like those 5 schools have achieved what most other schools in ghana only dream about.
k kwakye 11 years ago

You would have gone to 3rd World War if you had continued staying in Ghana...... lucky you !!!

You would have gone to 3rd World War if you had continued staying in Ghana...... lucky you !!!
cute shay 11 years ago

Lmfao to 3rd world war

Lmfao to 3rd world war
Idi Amin Dada 11 years ago

High School Drop-Out. Tweaaaaa!

High School Drop-Out. Tweaaaaa!

Kwame 11 years ago

So which certificate did you sent to USA to study

So which certificate did you sent to USA to study
Petamu 11 years ago

That is a good question. For me, it's all because he was from a wealthy family that was why he could push on again. If it had happened to a 'mobrowa' like myself, that would have been the end.

That is a good question. For me, it's all because he was from a wealthy family that was why he could push on again. If it had happened to a 'mobrowa' like myself, that would have been the end.
cute shay 11 years ago

Wealthy family? I don't think in American terms, he would be consisted wealthy and therefore given preferential treatment. Obviously there are exceptions to every rule, but for the most part, equality is effective in America, ...
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Wealthy family? I don't think in American terms, he would be consisted wealthy and therefore given preferential treatment. Obviously there are exceptions to every rule, but for the most part, equality is effective in America, unlike Ghana where a teacher would favor certain persons in the class based on who their parents are. I hope it has changed, Coz it sucks as a child to see a teacher clearly discriminate based on wealth, smh
cute shay 11 years ago

You know one can take the GED here in America and get into college? If you don't do well on it, you can still be admitted, but you'll be put on learning support courses for a semester or so.

You know one can take the GED here in America and get into college? If you don't do well on it, you can still be admitted, but you'll be put on learning support courses for a semester or so.
BBC 11 years ago

KSM,world class?apuu

KSM,world class?apuu
Petamu 11 years ago

That is the mediocrity glorification in Ghana talked about all the time. A world class what? He is good no doubt but his fame and skills are confined within the borders of Ghana. How many know him outside Ghana on the African ...
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That is the mediocrity glorification in Ghana talked about all the time. A world class what? He is good no doubt but his fame and skills are confined within the borders of Ghana. How many know him outside Ghana on the African continent, much more the world at large?
Appiah. r/c 11 years ago

waaaaoooow. A legend in fine arts ,indeed u hv come a long way. uncle ksm ayekoo. in d mean time and in between time I am out of. ........................******

waaaaoooow. A legend in fine arts ,indeed u hv come a long way. uncle ksm ayekoo. in d mean time and in between time I am out of. ........................******
Okesse 11 years ago

A woman used her BECE to enter a Nursing Training School in the US. The authority just asked her whether she is interested in nursing The YES answer got her admission. She is now a lecturer in the nursing college !!!!!!! S ...
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A woman used her BECE to enter a Nursing Training School in the US. The authority just asked her whether she is interested in nursing The YES answer got her admission. She is now a lecturer in the nursing college !!!!!!! She was given some English and mathematical questions to solve at HOME I guided her to solve them
That's it She is now a lecturer Oh my country Ghana what are yu doing to help those like KSM with E,E,E ,F?
cute shay 11 years ago

Errrmmmm not to sound rude, but what you saying is really strange to me. You need high school diploma to get into college here in the states, you know you have to take the SAT or ACT which is equivalent to Ghana ' s SSCE/WACE ...
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Errrmmmm not to sound rude, but what you saying is really strange to me. You need high school diploma to get into college here in the states, you know you have to take the SAT or ACT which is equivalent to Ghana ' s SSCE/WACE. Even with LPN, you still need high school when with private universities. And I've never heard of just a yes answer getting a person into nursing school here, it is highly competitive, you need so many prerequisite courses entrance exam, interview. You can't be given English and mathematical questions to solve at home and you are in. Well there are levels so I don't know which one that person did. Unless it's way back on the days, nursing programs currently extremely difficult to get in, I mean we talking about human lives here. Most of the old nurses say they were trained on the job, but is different today. I think Ghana should even raise their bars in regards to attaining admission to higher learning. So people like KSM can keep trying coz on the states is no different, your SAT score determines which college you go to and also if you'd start with learning support classes or not. KSM models must just keep trying and never give up till they get it right. And we have to find a way to smirk laziness from the secondary school students :)
ABU 11 years ago

Either he was too bad in school or the system planned deliberately his failure as it’s the norm in Ghana.The brilliant but poor in society hardly make it

Either he was too bad in school or the system planned deliberately his failure as it’s the norm in Ghana.The brilliant but poor in society hardly make it

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