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'Ghana saved me' - the learning curve for a teenage tearaway from London

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Tema was sent to Ghana at the age of 16 by his mother, a primary school teacher.

She told him he was not coming back to London until he had earned enough GCSEs to continue his education.

The British -Ghanaian teenager recently took his parents to the High Court in London for sending him to school in Ghana .

Mark Wilberforce is a freelance journalist based in Accra and Accra , Ghana .

He was sent back to Ghana by his parents living in London in the 1990s .

He says football in Ghana toughened him up in ways he could not have imagined.

The aggressive style played in Ghana was not just about skill - it was about resilience and endurance.