This Is My Story

Birth & background

Second of four children, I was born and named Rita Marian Akua Ntriwa Owusu to Mr. Joseph K. Owusu and Mrs. Theresa Owusu on Wednesday, the 23rd of May 1962, at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana. Ours was an upper middle-class family planted amidst a poor and largely uneducated community. Chorkor was a traditional fishing community, densely populated and notorious for churning out teenage mothers. The social environment made you tough and very outspoken and I learned that very fast. Outside the walls of our home there was very little to inspire, hence, our parents were our only role models.