MATTHEW ADJEI Biography
MATTHEW ADJEI
Matthew Adjei, born on 27th January,1962 lost three scholarship opportunities to enter high school because of the divorce between his parents. (See the poem: 'I saw my father's ghost before his death'. He ended up learning different traditional trades like beadmaking, adinkra cloth making and kente weaving. During his apprenticeship as a kente weaver, he had an encounter with a friend who was attending high school who suggested they took the private G.C.E. 'O' Level at that time in 1978; which he did and passed successfully. This brief success rekindled his academic zeal and he enrolled for a Sixth Form course at Techiman Secondary School in 1982 to 1984. The initial experiences at this stage of his struggles are recorded in 'Songs of School Days' to be published soon.
Gradually, this rekindled self-supported scholarship ended him at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he studied an undergraduate course leading to B.A (Social Sciences) from 1987 to 1990. After graduation, he took up teaching and topped his academic work with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Cape Coast from 1995 to 1997.
He then joined the Global Guest Teacher programme which took him from his country, Ghana to study at the University Of Copenhagen, Denmark from 1999 to 2000. Finally he did a Masters programme with the University of Cape Coast once again from 2008 t0 2013 and was eventually awarded the M. Ed. (IT) .
Throughout all these years, Matthew Adjei had been teaching at different levels of the Ghanaian education curriculum. He became a tutor of English Language Studies at St. Joseph College of Education, Bechem in Ghana (1997 - 2018) . He was the Head of the English Language Department; and later became Head of the ICT Department of the College. He is now Head of the Human Resource Management Development Unit of the Tano South Municipal Education Office in Bechem (2018 to date) .
He has won several awards including the Regional Best teacher (Brong Ahafo Region 2003 runner-up, National Best ICT Teacher Award (2007) and the International Microsoft Innovative Teachers Award (2008) .
His interests are reading, writing and watching movies. He is married to Mary Boateng. They have five children - three boys and two girls.
His many collections of poems reflect his struggles to achieve academic scholarship.
The problem is not how to find your way among the maze of yellow network
to catch the right bus to Nordre Fasanvej, but the precision of time consciousness
where the invisible clock sits like a tyrant
grinning and always smacking at you to hurry up,
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4. THE PICTURE ON THE WALL (To my Wife)
What is this picture doing here?
--That fair image of rural beauty
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I had wanted to write a poem
With a pun for fun,
But the theme will not come,
So the rhythm will not thrum,
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I was not sleeping, but I was dreaming.
I stood alone when winter came sweeping;
It was terrible and cold, I shivered;
I stood confused, not knowing what to do;
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You came with me half the way,
But you did not complete your goodbye;
And your farewell message was choked mid-way
So you promised to continue with me
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