Due to a lack of employment opportunities for graduates, a Ghanaian lady with a first-class degree has turned to baking and selling doughnuts on the streets.
The mother-of-two, Priscilla Akwagu, stated that she used to sell the snack before going to school but was compelled to return to the same business after graduating in order to provide for her family.
She claimed in an interview that she had graduated from the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) and had finished her time as a teaching assistant for the national service program, but that she had to go back to her hometown to continue selling buffloaf because it was her “only source of income for the time being.”
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According to Priscilla, the little business she inherited from her mother has helped her manage Ghana’s high unemployment rate, provide for her two daughters, and pay off their debt.
”I started hawking in Kumasi. I used to sell sugarcane and worked at a chop bar,” she added.
The woman gave birth to her first daughter at the age of 17 and was abandoned by the man responsible, but she braced up and began her secondary education when she reached 21.
When she finished from high school, she Priscilla enrolled in the university to pursue a Ghanaian language degree, while still working.
Despite juggling her academics with work, she graduated with a first-class and made headlines due to her sterling achievement.
Speaking on the challenge in she experiences, Priscilla lamented about soaring prices of flour, vegetable oil, and essential ingredients which are making it difficult to get good profit.
”Flour was GH¢24, but when I returned, it’s now GH¢500. The business needs some branding and more people to join. I have it in mind.
Where I’m currently frying now belongs to someone. So the person fries in the morning, in the afternoon I will also go. I use firewood; when it’s raining, it’s so pathetic; I have to be in the rain and be frying. I don’t even have a place for myself as I fry by the roadside. But you know, if you don’t have funds, you have to manage the little that you have.”