A life devoted to learning
Francis Mawulorm Nyameke was born on 18 April 1968. He was a native of Aglorkpovia in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region and a member of the Nyameke family, the royal family of that community. He made his home in Teshie, Accra, where he worked as a photographer and raised his family with his wife, Joyce Saforo.
He was a man of deep curiosity, with a particular love for science and engineering. He kept a large bookshelf of volumes from the Americas and the United Kingdom. He had bought them for himself, but he expected his children to read at least some of them, and he never stopped encouraging them to learn.
The gift of a name
His surname was Nyameke. To his children he gave his middle name, Mawulorm, meaning “God loves me” in Ewe, as their surname.
Planting the seed
Long before his family could afford a computer, he made sure his sons understood one. He enrolled Nicholas and Isaac in private lessons to learn typing and took them to cyber cafés to play games that taught how space shuttles work and how the universe is ordered. That investment shaped his eldest son’s life. Nicholas went on to become a software engineer, a university teaching assistant and the founder of Vesel Technologies.
His final charge
Francis Mawulorm Nyameke passed away in 2014, before his eldest son entered senior high school. On his sickbed, he urged his son to read the books of Psalms and Proverbs. It was a final expression of the lesson he had taught all his life: seek knowledge.
Even after his death, his work continued to serve others. Clients were still waiting for funeral and event photographs stored on his laptop. His son, using his self-taught knowledge of Windows systems, bypassed the password on the laptop and recovered the photographs for them.
Legacy
He is survived by his wife, Joyce Saforo, and their five children: Nicholas, Isaac, Eyram, Novisi and Kafui. He is also survived by his only sibling, Mrs Bertha Emefa Kudomor, who opened her home to his eldest son and paid for his university education. His curiosity, his bookshelf and his insistence on learning live on in each of them.
Rest in perfect peace.
