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99-year-old graduate fights against Africa brain drain

04/11/2010 11:53 am 1 comment

A former teacher has just graduated from university in Ghana — aged 99.

World War Two veteran Akasease Kofi Boakye Yiadom enrolled at Presbyterian University College’s business school aged 96.

“Education has no end,” he told CNN. “As far as your brain can work alright, your eyes can see alright, and your ears can hear alright, if you go to school you can learn.”

Now he has finished his studies, Boakye Yiadom is urging his classmates to resist the lure of higher salaries overseas and stay in Ghana.

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http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com Janet Shan

If only more of our black brothers would feel that way. I applaud this man for showing that the thirst for knowledge has no age limits.

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