Saturday 22 February 2014
A TAXI DRIVER IN NEW YORK, A CHIEF OVER 5 TOWNS IN GHANA
Like a
real life version of the Hollywood classic – Coming to America – a Ghanaian
taxi driver in New York is leading a double life as a tribal chief in his
native country.
Mr Osei moved to America in 1977, and started driving yellow cabs in 1982. And just like the fictional Prince Akeem from the film, Mr Osei met the woman of his dreams, Elizabeth, who was also working as a cab driver in New York City
Together though, they worked hard and now own a taxi company in the US, but unknown to most people, Mr Osei and wife travel back and forth to Ghana so he can take care of his responsibilities
This amazing double life for Isaac Osei began when he
inherited a throne in Ghana after his brother died in 2006
‘I never thought I would become a chief, until my brother passed. After his death the family told me I had to succeed him.
As chief of his people, the Akwamu people, Mr Osei oversees five towns in Ghana – settling family and property disputes and acting as a judge for his people. But back in America, Mr Osei leads a less glamorous lifestyle – one without palaces and crowds of people following him everywhere.
Mr Osei had this to say about his double life:
I prefer to be in Ghana, people come to me and treat
me with respect. When I’m here in New York, it’s a different thing. In Ghana, I
don’t do anything practically. When I get into my car they open the door for
me, I have my own palace, I have everything. When I come here it’s a different
thing. Nobody knows
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