Sally Baffour

I Can Be President...' Sally Baffour

President? Would Kojo ever be a President? Kojo, a quiet street orphan in Africa, lived in a small room in a village near the wild grasslands. One Sunday, on his going-nowhere strolls, Kojo heard children joyfully laughing, clapping and dancing. He followed the voices and peered into a large window of a Sunday school classroom. Inside, nicely dressed children listened to three teachers. Kojo wanted to learn, too, but he didn't have the proper attire to go inside, so he listened from outside. Kojo wore a dirty trash-dump T-shirt with the words, "I can be president," written on the front. The other kids pointed at his shirt and laughed at him, but it didn't deter Kojo from returning each Sunday to join the discussion from the window. He finally got the chance to join the group on the inside. Soon, a teacher realized that Kojo was a gifted student, and found him suitable clothing to wear for the Sunday School. With no facility for bursary or funding it was tough to get a child, like kojo into mainstream education, but finally a church school created a small fund to admit Kojo into the main stream school, too. After the first term, Kojo topped the class, and by the end of his first academic year, he had moved up four classes and still topped the other students. When Thank U, a non-profit organization from London, established a new library in Kojo's school, they wanted to feature two exceptional students, male and female. There were many children in the School with influential links in the community, so what chance did Kojo, an orphan, have of being chosen against that competition.