GABBY, I SALUTE YOU.

GABBY, I SALUTE YOU.

My Youth Discovery of the year ended 2009 is Master Gabriel Edzordzi Agbozo, a 2nd year BA student of the University of Ghana. Many unsung heroes and heroines of the past and the present generations have made and continue to make great strides on the planet, earth, but why don’t we hear about them?

Starting his basic school education in a relatively small town, Mafi Kumase in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region, he entered into the Sogakope Senior High School (SOGASCO) as a day student (but moved to the boarding house courtesy his academic prowess) in 2004. Through his ever enduring spirit and success consciousness, a good outcome could not elude him and that granted him the opportunity to enter the premier university of the Republic of Ghana, the University of Ghana, UG (The Underutilised Graduates, UG, is that not what they claim? I no know!).

His ever readiness to get things done as needed and his high sense of believing that the leader has a major role to play in shaping the route of any particular people compel him to assume many distinguished offices in the past and the present. Notable among those positions are the Senior Prefect of Mafi Kumase Cath. Prim. School sand later the J.H.S and SOGASCO, General Secretary of the Friends of the Earth (UG Chapter), Organising Secretary of SOGASCO Old Students (UG Chapter), the Advertising Officer of the 2009/10 edition of The Premier (the official magazine of Legon Hall of UG) and the Director of Operations of the flagship youth-focused motivational organisation in the Volta Region, the Beyonders Foundation.

Throughout his education to the current status, Gabby has displayed a high sense of industry, resilience, determination and the readiness and zeal to learn. These and others, unarguably, had made him carve a niche for himself in the commity of colleague youth. His ability to get things done, my dearest reader, can best be appreciated upon sighting a copy of the 2009/10 edition of The Premier magazine where his advertising adroitness has been brought to the fore hence ensuring that well-packaged magazine. Gabby, you deserve it.

Dearest reader, Gabby’s dexterity in combining alphabets to form words and his skills in congregating words to form sentences which culminate into poems, mine oh mine! will blow your mind. My Youth Discovery of the Year, my dearest reader, has to his credit over two hundred (200) poems of high standards. Few titles from his high inspiring, informing, entertaining and educating poems include Osagyefo, Empty Home, Twists, No Audience, A Slumbering Race, Crossroad and The Cockerel’s Prayer.

The sterling performance of Gabby during the poetry recitals on the Open Air Theatre on radio Universe 105.7 fm, UG’s radio station, this and every Sunday between 5:30 to 6:30pm cannot be overemphasized. On one of such programmes during which Gabby presented his “Empty Home”, the host, Master Obed Sarpong, could not resist but draw an analogy between the potentials of Gabby to the maestro poet, Prof. Kofi Anyidoho. Dearest reader, my Discovery’s acumen, indeed, has opened him magnificent doors of the dons of the literature. Prof. Atukwei Okine, the Executive Secretary of the Pan African Writers Association and Mr. Martin Egblewogbe of the University of Ghana are few of the great minds this lad has confer with.
Again, Gabby’s unraveling of the true essence of life, which is the readiness to better the lives of one’s people, beats my imagination. When I entered the university, some two (2) years before Gabby, a maiden covenant I made which to me is the most stupendous help I will ever give to a person on the university campus will be to offer a sleeping place ie. perching space to a fellow student absolutely free of charge. Unfortunately, my dream had been shuttered since I could not obtain an official accommodation in my final year of study (credit oh! No debit! the rude and dehumanising monster called protocol) but hey! the dream will still be alive even after school. Gabby made me proud that yes, the dream is still alive and am proud to be a recipient of his abnegating attitude. Gabby, I once again on Monday, the 11th of January, 2010 as I scribbled this piece say thank you.

Hello Gabby, you’re my Youth Discovery of the year ended 2009 and I salute you on this grand and splendid feat. Remember, what you’ve done before only serves as a catalyst to future feats and those which you’re yet to attain acts as heights worth capturing to better the lives of unborn generations.

Folk, your thought today can make the world better tomorrow.