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Nana Esi Inkoom

BIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE MRS NANA ESI AKYENBA INKOOM
Mrs Nana Esi Akyenba Inkoom, neé Wilson, was born on 12th February 1961 in Suame, Kumasi, as the 3rd child and 3rd daughter of James Reynolds Kodwo Baako Wilson of blessed memory and Comfort Adwoa Wilson neé Lamptey.  Unlike her older sister Aba, Esi was a calm baby that would just suck her middle two fingers contentedly.  She spent her early childhood on the campus of Wesley College, Kumasi where her father was a tutor. In 1965, her family moved to Sefwi Wiawso with the appointment of her father as the Principal of the Sefwi Wiawso Training College.  While in primary school, she got baptised into the Methodist Church, and her father named her Nana Esi Akyenba after his beloved younger sister Mrs Nana Ekua Akyenba Lindsay neé Wilson.
From class one to class six, Esi attended the Anglican Experimental Primary School, and continued to the Anglican Middle Girls School.  Esi was always smallish in size and her father used to give her special supplements to increase her weight and height, but this was not very successful. Her classmates and school friends were so sympathetic that anytime she had a weeding duty or punishment, her bigger sized mates would weed for her.  Once when she was sitting in the form one classroom, a practice teacher asked her what she was doing there, thinking that she was a primary school pupil waiting for her mother. Despite her size, she was a reasonably good athlete and a good runner.
Esi was a bright intelligent and talented young girl and was one of the few that did very well in the Common Entrance exam. In 1974, she joined her older sister Harriet and her Lindsay cousins – Korsima and Baaba in Wesley Girls’ High School, Cape Coast.  Nana Esi, as she was now commonly called, continued to be diligent in her studies and enjoyed participating in various extracurricular activities in the school .  She completed form five in 1979.  In the latter part of 1979, her father JRK Wilson went on retirement and moved the family to Saltpond.
Nana Esi followed her parents into the teaching field by continuing her post-secondary education at the Presbyterian Women’s Training College, a year after her older sister Stella. Nana Esi completed her post-secondary education in 1982 and began work as a teacher.
In 1982, Nana Esi was posted to the SS Peter & Paul’s Anglican Middle School’s Home Science Centre in Saltpond.  Immediately after commencing her teaching career in Saltpond, she joined the Saltpond Christian Fellowship. At this time, she made a lot of Christian friends including one Michael Kofi Inkoom, a fellow teacher who had also been posted to Saltpond the year before.
During the harsh economic period in the early eighties, Esi along with other family members engaged in various innovative entrepreneurial activities to survive. This may have enhanced her cooking skills that impressed many people subsequently.  On 24th June 1983, her father passed away and her mother who was the head teacher of the SS Peter & Paul’s Anglican School, decided to move to Nsawam to be closer to her own father who was then living in Suhum.
A year after the death of her father, Nana Esi moved with her mother to live in Nsawam, initially living in the same compound house as her mother’s cousin Auntie Eva Yaa Appiah while they looked for accommodation.  By this time, Nana Esi was being seriously courted by Mr Michael Kofi Inkoom.
Nana Esi and Kofi got married in 1985 after which she furthered her education with a diploma course at Winneba College of Education (now University of Education, Winneba). After completion of the diploma course, she was posted to Akim Oda Senior High School.  From there, she moved to Akim Wenchi Senior High School.
While working in Akim Wenchi, Nana Esi had her first child in Tema under the care of Mrs Yankah – her sister’s mother-in-law.  After her husband finished his diploma at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in 1990, he was posted to the Bolgatanga Circuit Monitoring Department of Ghana Education Service while also teaching at the St John Bosco College of Education.  Around this time, Nana Esi placed her son under the care of her mother, Mrs Wilson in Nsawam.
In 1992/93, Mr Inkoom was transferred to the GES head office in Accra and Nana Esi and her son eventually joined him in Accra.  She was posted to O´Reilly Senior High School where she taught for many years.  While at O´Reilly, she completed her bachelor´s degree in Life Skills at the University of Education, Winneba. Nana Esi then had her second and third children in Accra.
After some years of teaching, she was posted to the School Health Education Programme (SHEP) at GES headquarters as a SHEP coordinator.  In a few years, she was promoted as National Director to head the School Health Education Programme, a position she held until her retirement in 2021. Her position as the National SHEP Director enabled her to undertake professional courses internationally in countries such as Japan, Senegal, and the United States. She was often a lead liaison between Ghana Education Service, Ghana Health Service and other institutions such as the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (Ghana), Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (Ghana), Food and Drugs Authority (Ghana), UNICEF Ghana, World Health Organization, The World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency, UK Aid, Marie Stoves International Ghana, World Vision Ghana, Global Communities, and Water Aid Ghana. She also led the committee set up to manage Covid-19 in pre-tertiary schools in Ghana. As such, she often travelled the length and breadth of Ghana to monitor school health education activities.
Nana Esi was a strong Methodist and held various positions in the Methodist church. At different times and sometimes simultaneously, she was an assistant class leader, a secretary to the women´s fellowship, a Sunday school teacher (and later a Sunday school superintendent), and a member of the Gender and Social Committee at Bethany Methodist church, Accra. She was also a committed member of Scripture Union (SU) Ghana from her secondary school days at Wesley Girls´ High School. She was a member of the SU camp committee for many years and was awarded for being a long serving member. After her retirement, she moved with her family to Kasoa and joined the Kasoa Trinity Methodist Church where she immediately became an active member of the Women’s Fellowship and started earnestly helping the Trinity Sunday School.
Nana Esi loved children and she brought up many children in the Christian Faith. As a home economist, she loved cooking and was well known for her amazing culinary skills which she gladly shared with many people through her dishes.
In May 2022, she invited her mother to Kasoa for a long visit during which they had good times harvesting from her little front yard garden, singing hymns, and attending church together. On 25th and 26th November, all her siblings, their spouses and children (minus those located in the USA) convened in Nana Esi’s Kasoa home to celebrate their mother’s birthday.  She invited the family to another gathering on 18th December to celebrate the birthday of her daughter Ekua., but alas circumstances changed and the party plan prematurely truncated.
On Wednesday 14th December, Nana Esi started the day singing Methodist hymns very enthusiastically.  She baked cakes for the Trinity Methodist Church Women’s Fellowship’s end of year party and attended the party with her friend Becky.  During the party, her sister Stella called her and they ended up having a long conversation.  After she returned home from the party, she relaxed over a book until it was time for her to go to bed.
But alas, she fell ill that same night and died in the early hours of Thursday 15th December 2022.  She left behind her mother, Comfort Wilson; her husband, Kofi Inkoom; her three children, Nana Kow, Kobina, and Ekua; and her siblings, Harriet Efua, Stella Aba, Gabriel Kwesi, and Edmund Kwamena.
Nana Esi, you were a treasure gifted to our family by the Almighty God that you loved and served so well. You were the peacemaker in the family and the link with the Wilson side of the family.  That same Almighty God has now called you to be with Him.
Nana Esi, may God’s favour be on your soul; may you sing along with the Heavenly Choir; may you be our special Guardian angel till we meet again.

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