Sherifa Gunu is a Ghanaian female musician. She was born a princess into a royal family of the Kingdom of Dagbon, in the Northern Region of Ghana. Gunu had interest in music and dance during his childhood days. Sherifa has been in various dancing competition at the regional and national level.
Talented songstress, Sherifa Gunu has shared her saddest story to the world of how she moved from her hometown, Savelugu in the Northern Region in a truck transferring cows from the northern part to Accra to pursue her music career.
Sherifa in a recent interview on the Northern Achiever show on Motion TV, the songstress indicated that she had to take the risk because her father was not able to pay for her brother’s Senior Secondary School education at the time.
She revealed; “There came a time my father was looking for GHc80 to pay my school fees and never got that amount. He tried sourcing it from his brother who was a bit financially sound but he declined to support him. I saw my father returning and looking distraught with tears filled in his eyes.”
"It was from there I resolved to relocate from Savelugu because I have talent but my family is broke, I became frustrated and needed to help my father," she added.
The songstress said she approached her uncle who usually transported cows to the southern part of the country with a promise not to tell her father.
Her uncle however agreed and she gathered some belongings in a polythene bag which she gave to her good friend to wait for her at the station.
“I managed to sneak out of the house and boarded the truck with 20 cows. It took us two days on the trip before we finally arrived at Kumasi. The cows kicked at me, defecated, and were also beaten by the rain. It is something I will never forget," she said.
By: Michael Djan
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