Ghanaian Highlife musician Fameye has opened up about a painful childhood experience, revealing how he was teased and stigmatised by his classmates because his grandmother attended his Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) meetings.

Speaking in a recent interview with Kobby Kyei, Fameye said his classmates often mocked him because they assumed the elderly woman who came to his PTA meetings was his mother.

According to him, the teasing became so uncomfortable that he eventually stopped informing his grandmother about his school meetings.

“I was stigmatised in school because my grandmother used to come for my PTA. My classmates used to tease me that my mother is an old woman,” he recounted.

Fameye stated that the situation became worse as he grew older, particularly when he entered Junior High School (JHS).

“At a point, I stopped my grandmother from attending my PTA. As young as we were, they realised that the old lady was too grown to be my mother, so I wasn’t informing her anymore. When I got to JHS, it got worse. No one attended my school events,” he explained.

Fameye further revealed that while he was in boarding school, he did not have parents or relatives regularly bringing him food from home, unlike some of his colleagues.

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“In SHS too, I never had anyone to bring me food from the house when I was in boarding house,” he shared.

He recalled becoming emotional whenever he saw one of his seniors receiving food from his parents during weekends.

“One of my seniors’ parents always brought him food every weekend and I always became emotional when I saw that,” Fameye noted.

According to the ‘Nothing I Get’ hitmaker, the experience taught him that financial status does not always determine how comfortable or supported a child feels.

“There are some children whose parents are not rich, but they provide for them and make them comfortable,” he said.

Fameye also recalled being surprised when he visited the homes of some classmates whom he had assumed were better off financially.

“There were some that I thought they were D-bees, but when I went to their house, I realised that where I was staying was better, but I wasn’t getting the benefits they were enjoying,” he added.



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