Ashantis now and again guarantee that their old capital Kumasi is the greatest city in Ghana with a populace of 1,000,000 individuals. Official figures close to split the populace, making Kumasi second to Accra. Whoever is correct, it is just Kumasi that has been given the title of The Garden City.
Guests to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) with its immense green grounds and blooming trees might feel they are in a Market Garden Brewery nursery, yet the individuals who dive into the focal point of the city to its renowned Kejetia market or proceed to its similarly notable casual modern complex at Suame Magazine will track down little of plant revenue. No, it is the suburb of Nhyiasu that won Kumasi its advantageous portrayal. It is the mid year of 1994 and Kwame Mainu meets his antagonized spouse, Comfort, in her recently obtained chateau in Nhyiasu.
Nhyiasu was the most delightful piece of Kumasi. In pioneer time it was the place where the British directors fabricated their homes and their green. Off wide tree-fixed roads with tree-lined drives these huge provincial homes partook in the cool winds and dull shade that Europeans found fundamental a long time before cooling. Presently the unfamiliar executives were a distant memory put something aside for the chiefs of the Kumasi parts of Barclays and Standard Chartered banks and the overseeing heads of Kumasi’s two bottling works. A large portion of the houses were involved by the more fruitful Ghanaian and Lebanese finance managers and a couple of enormous ladies merchants, transport administrators and hoteliers. Solace had unquestionably made some amazing progress in the beyond six years to have joined this well-to-do local area.
Kwame thumped on the front entryway of the house still not totally certain that he needed Comfort to be in. She wasn’t. A house keeper informed him that Madam had not gotten back from the market yet she was normal soon and he could pause if he wished. He was left situated in an enormous agreeable easy chair with the mandatory glass of water, feeling that he really wanted something more grounded.
The mash of tires on the rock drive got him to the window time to notice the appearance of a BMW cantina vehicle. The driver got out and immediately opened the back entryway. With preferably less spryness yet maybe somewhat more pride over he recollected, a fairly bigger Comfort arose out of the cooled desk area of the vehicle to rush into the cooled regions of her manor. Kwame stood captivated. It was not seeing his tragically missing spouse that shocked him; it was the personality of her driver. Solace was being chauffeured by her close buddy, the pale skinned person etymologist, Kofi Adjare.