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Prioritize your education- War Veteran tells Ghanaian women

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With just a few weeks to officially bring the ‘Year of Return’ to an end, Africans in the diaspora continue to trace their roots to Ghana and other counties on the continent, to mark 400 years since the abolition of slave trade.

 

The country has hosted many returnees this year who are visiting the continent for the first time.

One of such returnees is an Iraqi War Veteran, Xavia Forrester-Joseph.

Mrs. Forrester-Joseph, advised Ghanaian women to prioritise their education in order to fulfil their potentials. 

The arrival of the War veteran to the shores of the country, forms part of efforts by the Christ’s Oasis Ministries’s participation in government’s Year of Return initiative.

This is after the church hosted a 5 member delegation from the US few weeks ago for the same reason.

Madam Xavia Forrester-Joseph, one of the few females to have served in the US navy visited a number of tourists sites of relevance such as the Cape Coast and Elmina castles, W.E.B Du Bois center and the Arts Center while in the country.

Madam Forrester-Joseph who is of Jamaican decent says she traced her traces her roots to the Ashanti tribe whose language “is so similar to that of the patua spoken in Jamaica”.

She shared her experience as a female in the US  navy.

“I served in the US navy, entered the navy during the war between Iraq, Afghanistan and the US. I had two tours across the seas and I saw the injusice in the world. I stood up not just to represent America but the world  for peace and global unity”

The former war Veteran said she enjoyed a number of Ghanaian delicacies including “banku and goat soup, kenkey, fufu and ampesi” adding that it was fun eating with her fingers.

She encouraged Ghanaian women to be strong and put God first in all their exploits.

Madam Forrester hinted to plans to relocated to Ghana and acquire a Ghanaian citizenship in the process, and contribute her quota to the development of the nation.

The war veteran Mrs. Forrester-Joseph and pastor Elvis

Lead Pastor of the Christ’s Oasis Ministries Rev Elvis Eben-Baffour said it is always fulfilling that his church participates “in an activity of nationalistic in nature” adding that their doors are always open to receive more returnees.

Although the Year of Return officially ends on December 31, 2019, he was hopeful that the initiative continues in 2020 and beyond.

Story by Nathaniel Nartey.

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