Pastor Emmanuel Ziga

He wore shoes for the first time at the age of nine.

And he did not see his father.

And his mother was poor.

And he had to go to work in a farm 5 a.m.

in the morning.

And for about two hours to get the little coins to feed himself and to put himself in school.

And he would walk barefooted almost about six miles a day to school, you know, self-educated, self-taught.

But he did so well, he got scholarships and to the best high school, College Motor School, which was built by the British, you know.

And then from there he got another scholarship to go to England.

to advance his education.

So he was very well British-trained, British-taught, with the disciplines and principles which were not very common in the African context, you see.

So he studied ceramics in... Ceramics, like pottery.

Pottery.

Yeah.

The, the, the British, uh,

in a colonized Ghana.

So they had British scholarships for- But not every child got that opportunity.

No, no, no, no.

You should be a straight A student kind of a thing.

So he must have done very well.