The Non-Immigrant Student
The Non-Immigrant Student podcast is an audio journal of my grad-school (and now corporate) journey in the United States of America.
It is an inspirational podcast that seeks to encourage and provide guidance to other non-immigrant students across the globe on how to live their best lives while fulfilling their Study/Work Abroad dreams or living far away home!
My stories reveal all the lessons I'm learning on this journey, and I honestly believe that ''If I can do it, you can do it too!''
So excited to have you with me on this journey, Welcome!
The Non-Immigrant Student
Going Back to Ghana: An Option or not an Option? with Nyamekye A. Nkansah and Abena Opong-Fosu, LL.M. ’22, Cornell University, USA
Nyamekye Afua Nkansah, LL.M. and Abena Opong-Fosu, LL.M. are recent graduates from the Cornell Law School.
Afua graduated with an LL.B. from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2017 winning the award for “Best Project” in that academic year. She ventured on to “Makola” which is the Ghana School of Law, Accra, where she practiced her law degree and was later called to the Ghana bar in 2020. Her interests are in public policy, international law and human rights. In her spare time, Afua loves to read novels, watch movies, and go shopping!
Abena, also an attorney from Ghana, graduated with an LL.B. from Kwame Nkrumah University in 2017, and was called to the Ghana bar in 2019. Abena worked in a leading private practice law firm in Ghana as well as interned for the Chief Justice of Ghana. In her one year at Cornell, she has worked as a research assistant for the legal information institute, a teaching assistant in a depositions course and won the award for ''Highest grade'' in the Financial Institutions course. Her interests are in Business Law and Regulation. In her spare time, she likes to travel, try exotic meals and create desserts! She even turned her passion for creating desserts into a start-up business, and you can check it out here.
Of the dynamic duo, Afua has decided that returning to Ghana is her best option and the next step for her right now while Abena would like to explore her options in the US before making a decision whether or not to return home.
It has been a pleasure getting to know them while attending grad school together as well as learning Ghanaian slangs like ''hot'' and ''cref''.
We hope that this episode encourages you to be comfortable with whatever decision you make post-completion of your graduate/undergraduate studies in another country and it encourages you to thrive wherever you find yourself.
Remember, if we can do it, you can do it too!
West African Love,
Tolu x Afua x Abena
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