Alberta Ama Oduraa Quartey was born 7:45PM on Saturday, 26 February 2000 at Korlebu, Accra Ghana after scary incident. Her pregnancy led her mother to discover she had fibroids and the prognosis was she had a 50 – 50 chance of survival at just about 2 months of conception. With prayers and declaration of faith, her birth was deemed a miracle especially after checking all her features and everything was intact.

Oduraa did not speak early due to multiple languages she was exposed to until she started school at 1 year 7 months old. She was a very reserved child, expressing very little. She started her pre-school at Bugain School at Community 20 and later moved to Ann Lisa School and finally GETSA now known as Rising Sun Montessori. At GETSA, teachers asked me few times to confirm hers and her younger sister’s ages as they felt they behaved more maturely than what they told them. Oduraa was very protective of her younger sister especially having been told not to hit her. I heard “If not that mummy said I shouldn’t hit you” several times until one day, their mother asked her to beat her younger sister back while she moderated. That ended the hitting but brought to light how obedient she was even at the face of bearing hitting from her younger sister.

Oduraa passed her BECE excellently and proceeded to Mfantsiman Senior High School. Mfantsiman changed Oduraa to become outspoken, stating her opinion openly but in a respectful manner. Oduraa was the head of JYC (Judah Yahweh Crew). She led her musical group to replace their music box by leading the drive to raise money for it – Oduraa designed a form which she brought to ICGC calvary Temple, tasking Teens Chapel’ facilitators, her mother’s friends in the church and within her professional circle in 2016.

From SHS 1 to SHS 2, she kept saying, “mummy, I don’t know what I want to do in the future” and that was always met with “there is no rush, keep praying, I am sure you will know, keep praying”. It was therefore not a surprise when in her SHS3, she called home with excitement saying now she knew what she wanted to do, “Telecommunication Engineering” and she want it done at Kwame Nkrumah Science and Technology (KNUST). The mother decided to take both admission forms for University of Ghana and KNUST, playing it safe. She passed her WASSCE excellently and was very optimistic she would go to KNUST. Admission from University of Ghana came first for Computer Engineering while she was at Ultimate Credit Solutions for her  internship. When she was informed, she was so disinterested until two days later, that of KNUST came through. And that started her journey at KNUST. 

She started with the children church at ICGC Calvary Temple up to the Teens Chapel. The yearly Camp and Teens Chapel helped in her formative years, grounding her in her faith. While writing her BECE, she would pass by church for service after school – this was solely her decision as her mother often travels. Yet she was able to manage her time well enough not to have it impact her studies.