SILENT STRUGGLE, by Kosi Tette;
My worries will be over if only I can get to America! This was all Kwesi Asamane dreamed about while battling frustration and turmoil in Ghana. Beating impossible odds, he arrives in America on a partial college scholarship. Every inch of progress requires exhaustive battles, and idealistic views about America are replaced by cynicism. Mentally spent and alienated, he reaches for the simple life he once knew, but returning to Ghana is no picnic. Expectations are unreasonable, and traces of assimilated culture suddenly surface and make him appear foreign to his people. He returns to America tormented by not being who he was until tragedy triggers a catharsis.
Published by TRAFFORD, ISBN 1-55395-572-2; paperback; 174 pages
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kosi Tette is a native of Ghana, West Africa. He currently lives and works in Detroit, Michigan, as an engineering project manager at General Motors Corporation. Achieving higher education has been one of his goals since arriving in the United States in 1987. He has a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Prairie View A&M University, Texas, and holds respective masters degrees in Engineering and Business Administration from Purdue University, Indiana, and the University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
