{"id":1080930,"date":"2022-05-09T08:12:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T08:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/09\/i-was-transported-with-20-cows-from-savelugu-to-accra-to-start-life-sherifa-gunu\/"},"modified":"2022-05-09T08:12:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T08:12:26","slug":"i-was-transported-with-20-cows-from-savelugu-to-accra-to-start-life-sherifa-gunu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/09\/i-was-transported-with-20-cows-from-savelugu-to-accra-to-start-life-sherifa-gunu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was transported with 20 cows from Savelugu to Accra to start life&#8221; \u2013 Sherifa Gunu \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Sherifa Gunu, a Ghanaian soul musician, has shared her heartbreaking story of being transferred with 20 cows from Savelugu to Accra to start a new life.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The singer said on Northern Achiever on Motion TV that she had to take the risk since her father couldn\u2019t gather funds from his brother to pay her SSS tuition.<\/p>\n<p>Detailing the genesis of her life and a career breakthrough, Sherifa had this to say;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere came a time my father was looking for 80ghc to pay my school fees and never got that amount. He tried sourcing it from his brother who was a bit financially sound but he declined to support him.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw my father returning and looking distraught with tears filled in his eyes. It was from there I resolved to relocate from Savelugu because there was no helper. I have talent but my family is broke. I became frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI approached my uncle who usually transported cows to the south to help me leave Savelugu with a promise not to tell my father about it. He agreed and I gave a polythene bag containing my belongings to a friend Bintu to wait at the station for me to join.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, I managed to sneak out of the house and boarded the truck with 20 cows. It took us two days on the trip before we finally arrived at Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cows kicked at me, defecated and were also beaten by the rain. It is something I will never forget\u201d, She recounted.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Sherifa Gunu, a Ghanaian soul musician, has shared her heartbreaking story of being transferred with 20 cows from Savelugu to Accra to start a new life. The singer said on Northern Achiever on Motion TV that she had to take the risk since her father couldn\u2019t gather funds from his brother to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1080932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[813,2613,12543,696,10013,12544,2027,12567],"class_list":["post-1080930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-accra","tag-cows","tag-gunu","tag-life","tag-savelugu","tag-sherifa","tag-start","tag-transported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}