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Realities Of Life

This is the story of a young African boy who faces challenges growing up.

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Genesis

Mama mama where are we going to Redeemer asked

We are going to your Grand mother's place the mother answered. The parents of the young lad were having issues with themselves which sometimes results into a fight. The father of the 3 year old young boy will be beating his mother in his presence. So due to that the mother had to leave the marriage because her husband which is Redeemer's father is really abusive . At times he would even beat Redeemer mercilessly. The father Of Redeemer is a fisher man who's name is John and the mother is a seamstress who is called Makafui. They all lived in Tema a town in Ghana which is a country in West Africa. They gave birth to one child which they named him Redeemer. The father was an Illiterate so he had to ask someone to explain the meaning of the name that was even given to his child. So it got to a point in the marriage of Redeemer's parents where they had issues upon issues. John starts to be violent towards the his wife and his only child. But Makafui could no longer tolerate the abusive marriage. So she decided to leave the marriage. So she began planning on where to move to if she had to leave . So many thoughts came into her . Fortunately there was someone who was renting an apartment. So she had no option but just to move into that apartment after payment had been done successfully . John have not been e taking responsibilities of the well-being of his son not to talk of his wife . Anytime that he comes back from work, he normally spend money on drinks and on friends not remembering that,has some responsibilities to take care of. Ops it seems I have not told you earlier. John who was the father of Redeemer went for fishing normally they usually visit different countries when they go for work and when they go out to fish, they spend like 3month to 4 months on the sea before returning home. So on one of their working trip, They visited Abidjan where he met a woman called Patricia and it was been believed by the mother of Redeemer that she was a witch and that she casted a spell on John. And that was the beginning of the troubles in the his marriage. So After the payment had been may, Makafui moved into the apartment where she began to start her life. She starts working tirelessly to take care of her only son. She enrolled her child in a private school where the child began to excel academically. Life was becoming tough for Makafui so she decided to send her son to stay with her mother . Some week later, she sent her child to her mother . When they got there , the parents welcomed them they were really happy to see them. Redeemer was actually their first grandson so they were so much excited. The Grandma of Redeemer was Mary and the step Grandpa was Daniel. So they accepted to take care of baby Redeemer after his mother had explained the whole issue to them . The Grandma was a small business woman whiles the step Grandpa was a Police man. So they were taking care of Redeemer,they were showing him love . When it comes to the birthday of Redeemer it was really massive. There came a time where Daniel who is ( because he is still alive) the step Grandpa of Redeemer had a transfer . Whereby he had move to a place called (Denu) in the Volta Region of Ghana🇬🇭 . So had to move with his family including Redeemer. So when they got they , the town was closed to the sea. The whole place is full of sand which makes it difficult for those who haven't walk on such nature of land before to struggle whiles walking. As soon as they got to the town Redeemer was enrolled in a government school. So he began schooling. Redeemer began to make new friends in the town which really influenced him. He became stubborn, notorious name them. So Redeemer began to steal his step Grandpa's money . He would get caught and be beaten. Whenever he goes out to play he come back late which he has been beaten a couple of times for. But still he did not change . There was a time where a friend asked Redeemer to bring money foe juju and since Redeemer loves Power from infancy he always get excited whenever he hears something like that. So Redeemer had to steal money from his step Grandpa to pay his friend not knowing that his friend was just lying to him . The friend will just use some treads about three with different colors and then a broom broom stick , he will tie the tread to the broom and give it to Redeemer to keep. Sometimes when Redeemer go to school, he would tell him that "Redeemer we went to war at night and we engaged in a war but because you were not fortified enough you had been hit by flying bullets) and then he would show Redeemer an old tiny sore on his body as a prove of the bullets he Redeemer had taken at the war. It keeps on going like that for sometime. Redeemer was really a good friend to that of his friend he normally gives him footwear's that he Redeemer feels like give out. Redeemer and his friend came back from school and the friend decided to pass the route that Redeemer normally passes to his house on reaching where Redeemer was, the Grandmother spotted his friend so she called him and told Redeemer which of his footwear's he would like to give out , so Redeemer brought all of them out and the Grandmother gave it to his friend. One thing led to the other Redeemer no longer walks with his friend anymore his friend is actually called Lucian . There were times Redeemer had to fight with her grandma.