Fatherhood is an embodiment of diverse elements ranging from emotional connection to physical responsibilities. The role of a father is lifelong and beyond. Being the sperm donor makes you a biological father; however, real fatherhood is embedded in actual involvement. An ever-present father is priceless.

A father who embodies the role holistically is spectacular.

Award-winning Writer, poet and spoken word artiste, Nana Fredua-Agyeman Jnr. celebrates his father on Father’s Day. His father, Nana Fredua Owusu-Agyeman, widely known as Nana Fredua-Agyeman, was a writer, journalist and lawyer. He worked as a political correspondent at the Graphic Corporation, now Graphic Communications Group Limited.

He was a two-time awardee by the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in the 1970s.

In the early 1980s, his newspaper, called ‘Confessions’, grossed approximately a record-breaking one hundred thousand copies per edition.

He was a founding member of the Private Newspaper Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG) in 1991.

In the same year, he founded ‘Young & Old’ and later ‘Top Story’ in the early 2000s. After working as a private legal practitioner for over a decade, he was appointed as the Registrar of the Ghana School of Law from 2008 to 2012. He transitioned in 2019.

FOR MY DADDY by NANA FREDUA-AGYEMAN JNR.

I write because you wrote

I embody statements which are your quote

Your transition pierced me like a pike

And my tears can’t be held back with a dike

My identity bestowed by you makes me stand out in the crowd

I pledge to continuously make you proud