First of all, let me thank you for
visiting my home page. Relax as I take you on a memorable
tour.
- My full name is Stephen Emmanuel Nii Aryee
Armah. To most of my friends however, I am known as the
"pardus panthera"
because my friends claim I have the
courage and wits of a leopard. Do not get me wrong, I am not a
cocky fellow, on the contrary, I would say I am quite mellow . The
problem is I could not fight a name that I had not chosen by
choice, it caught on so well and so fast. In fact, soon I begun to
go with it my self.
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- I was born on the 14th of June 1977 in
Accra,(The capital of Ghana) to Mr and Mrs Matthew Armah. I am the
last of a family
of four kids I am about 5' 5 and 1/2"
tall and dark in complexion (very dark even for a black man. Check
out some of my pictures from the picture gallery). I had my
pre-school
education in Nsawam (a town in the in
the eastern part of the country) where my Dad, a pharmacist had
been transfered and had my secondary school education in
Cape-coast. ( Cape-coast happens to be one of the most important
cities to the trans-Antlantic slave traders and still has most of
the forts and castles for example, the Cape-coast castle, which
contains the horrible dungeons that housed the slaves that were
taken to America still standing). I completed my Pre-college
Education in Accra, the capital and moved to Swarthmore college in
Pennsylvannia in 1997 for college. I hope to graduate from
Swarthmore with a BS in Engineering and a BA in Economics
hopefully in the year 2001.
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- What are the things that I find intreresting
about my self? well you do not meet a guy who can speak about four
different languages relatively well and get by on a 5th everyday.
I can speak Ga, Twi, Fante (all Ghanian languages with ease). I
can also speak English fluently and get by in French without much
hassle.
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- Short of sounding vain, I view my self as a
very tolerant individual who nonetheless has a very well defined
view of right and wrong. I discovered as I was growing up that
making mistakes is inherent in the nature of most people and to
have the ability to forgive them is a virtue not found in most
people. This view I share with My brother
Joseph Armah and the proverb
"to err is human,
to
forgive
divine" is one that we both love. However,
I do not believe that people should not attempt o avoid mistakes.
I believe that everyone should be
the best they can
be and hope that their best is
enough.
- I love to write imaginative stories even
though in the last few months of my life, I have rather been doing
a lot of anlytical writting. College life nawa! .Check out my
advice column :Pardus'
Advice column, in the archive section
(spring 98) of the
Phoenix which is Swats' original
mouthpiece.
- I love football (or soccer as it is called in
tne US), in fact I am a a football fanatic, boxing, basketball and
tennis. I used to sing as a kid but my soprano lost its melody
once I metamorphosed into a man. Ironic eh? Dancing is another
thing I love, from hi-life, hip-pop, reggae to marrenge. I also
like to listen to music, travel and window shop (I am embarassd to
admit this!!!!).
- I also love to eat and sleep. However, I would
not advice you visiting my page to follw suit!
- There is dignity in working hard!