A Year and a Half Sleeping in a Car

Kwame Oboadie is a presenter at Adom FM in Ghana. He comes from Kwahu, in the Eastern Region, and has spoken about a hard period after he moved to the capital, Accra.

To pay for the trip, he sold mangoes and saved up. He planned to stay with an uncle in Accra, and he had written to ask whether he could, but he set out before receiving a reply. When he arrived, his uncle refused to house him. In Oboadie's words, his uncle left him stranded without money and told him to go back.

He chose not to return home. He met people from Kwahu in Abossey Okai and stayed. A friend who slept in a car at a fitting shop offered him a place in it. They slept in the car, he said, for almost a year and a half. The headline of the report says over a year, but his own quoted words give the longer figure, so the exact length is not entirely clear.

The report does not describe how he came into broadcasting or how he moved on from the car. It identifies him as an Adom FM presenter today, and the account is told in his own words.