Fr. Gabriel Sosu, SVD, was born on June 19, 1951, the eldest son, but the second sibling in the family of six girls and three boys. At New Town, a sprawling suburb of Accra, the ca...view moreFr. Gabriel Sosu, SVD, was born on June 19, 1951, the eldest son, but the second sibling in the family of six girls and three boys. At New Town, a sprawling suburb of Accra, the capital of Ghana on the West coast of Africa. His parents were from Togo and migrated to that country in the 1940s. At a good, ripe age of twenty-five, when at a time everyone in the family was looking up to him as the one who will help his younger ones. Inclined to pursue his calling to the sacred orders, he gave up his job as clerk in the ministry of education to enter the seminary and to study for the priesthood.view less