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Dr. Mary NaaBarkor Ayettey- Francesca Dzifa Bedzra aka
Adamafio (MD) aka “Toy Box” “Francopee!”
Specialist Periodontist at Korle-Bu Business Manager, Stanbic Bank
Teaching Hospital Ghana
Mother of three wonderful kids Olympic Star Volleyball Player (in my
head)
Compton House (Block K); S1
Class (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) Abban House (Block M); A1
Chapel Rep for S1 Class; Class (English, Literature in English,
Economics, Religious Knowledge)
Birthday: 28th May, 1978
Member of the Cultural Club – Master
Alumna of the University of Ghana Drummer
(BSc Medical Sciences) and University
of Ghana Dental School BDS Degree Alumna of the University of Ghana
Business School (BSc in Business
Member of the Ghana College of Administration) and Youngstown
Physicians & Surgeons and West State University (MA in Financial
Africa College of Surgeons Economics)
Interests: Cooking; Baking; Playing Interests: Volleyball; Tennis; Tennis,
the Piano Volleyball J
hen I enrolled in Wesley Girls’ he moment I entered the gates
WHigh School in 1994, I was Tof Wesley Girls’ High School, I
filled with so much excitement and knew I was going to have a difficult
felt highly elated to be in one of the time, at least at the beginning. This is
best secondary schools in Ghana. I enjoyed being with my classmates and participated in how I knew. I was coming from a boarding house with some of the most liberal views on rules
some inter house competitions such as 100m races and long jump sports. The competition and adhering to rules. Being disciplined was optional, for the most part. And people largely
among the students was keen and pushed us to work hard. This has always challenged me to came and went as they pleased. I wasn’t wrong. I had a difficult freshman year and I’m sure my
continue to work hard to achieve the very best. seniors will attest to the fact that they had an even harder time dealing with me. I was rude,
disrespectful, petulant, unyielding, resistant to authority, couldn’t understand why we had SO
My favorite memory of the school was when Mrs. Acheampong punished us (Form Threes) many rules, including even the way we walked!
to clean the dining hall tables for a few days for singing out loud after dinner the songs we
had memorized for our Fante paper (SSCE), which did not show up in the exam that day. Fast forward several years after leaving Gey Hey and I can’t imagine how my life would’ve
She only listened to our explanations after the punishment. turned out without going through it. It laid the foundation for everything I know and
everything I’ve become. I’m currently working as a Business Manager in Stanbic Ghana’s
I always focus on our motto “live pure, speak true, right wrong and follow the King”. Corporate and Investment Banking Division. Before then I worked as a senior research
I will always be grateful to my parents, siblings, Dr. Naa Okaikor Addison (nee Adamafio) analyst for a business and economic consulting firm in Youngstown, USA.
Dr. Naa Adorkor Sodzi-Tettey (nee Addy) and many more who were my role models and
confidants at WGHS. My career path has been interesting. I was convinced, for the longest time, that I would
become a lawyer. Then I discovered, quite belatedly in my final year in Gey Hey, that
To God be the glory! mathematics/numbers was not the terrifying, human-eating monster that I always thought it
was. So now I do numbers for a living J. Thanks Gey Hey!

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