‘’To pass BECE, I would take a textbook along (sometimes a solution board to work some maths) while taking care of the sheep. Occasionally, I would get the beating of my life from unforgiving farmers whose crops got destroyed by the sheep when I focused on reading, rather than the whereabouts of the animals. But I soldiered on, and despite my peculiar challenges, I emerged the best of my JHS for my year,” he said.

He was able to continue his education because of his high grade, he got admission into Business Secondary School, Tamale in Ghana, and consistently aced his subjects till he graduated. Furthering on, his mother suggested he registers at Teachers Training College as she could not afford university fees, Mumin almost considered it because of the awaiting job opportunity attached to the college.

But he hesitated thinking about the constraints on progression as a teacher in the Ghanaian educational system. He defied his mother and applied to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(KNUST) to pursue his Bachelor’s degree in Development Planning.

As a student in KNUST, Mumin struggled financially but he was able to pull through with loans and involuntarily fasting for some days. After he graduated, Mumin was able to get a shared scholarship from Commonwealth to study for a Master’s Degree.

Mumin bagged his Master’s degree in Economic Development from the University of Glasgow, Scotland in the United Kingdom before getting his doctorate degree on scholarship from the same institution.

Mumin advised students from his community never to look down on their ability, That they don’t need to be exceptionally brilliant before they can achieve academic success but rather persevere and push on.

‘’To pass BECE, I would take a textbook along (sometimes a solution board to work some maths) while taking care of the sheep. Occasionally, I would get the beating of my life from unforgiving farmers whose crops got destroyed by the sheep when I focused on reading, rather than the whereabouts of the animals. But I soldiered on, and despite my peculiar challenges, I emerged the best of my JHS for my year,” he said.

He was able to continue his education because of his high grade, he got admission into Business Secondary School, Tamale in Ghana, and consistently aced his subjects till he graduated. Furthering on, his mother suggested he registers at Teachers Training College as she could not afford university fees, Mumin almost considered it because of the awaiting job opportunity attached to the college.

But he hesitated thinking about the constraints on progression as a teacher in the Ghanaian educational system. He defied his mother and applied to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(KNUST) to pursue his Bachelor’s degree in Development Planning.

As a student in KNUST, Mumin struggled financially but he was able to pull through with loans and involuntarily fasting for some days. After he graduated, Mumin was able to get a shared scholarship from Commonwealth to study for a Master’s Degree.

Mumin bagged his Master’s degree in Economic Development from the University of Glasgow, Scotland in the United Kingdom before getting his doctorate degree on scholarship from the same institution.

Mumin advised students from his community never to look down on their ability, That they don’t need to be exceptionally brilliant before they can achieve academic success but rather persevere and push on.