Reggie and I happened to be family friends as well as primary school mates at Morning Star. This brotherhood blossomed further when we both lived in the same area for a while in Accra.

On a very warm Friday afternoon in September 1978, we all arrived at the great college of St. Augustine’s with all this youthful exuberance.

We were walking aimlessly around the campus, savouring every moment with no care in the world throughout the weekend and then came the fateful Monday when the seniors arrived. A few of us including Reggie made a dash for the beach to get away from the seniors who had arrived from all walks of life. We then realised that the beach was out of bounds and then decided to go to town on another day instead (of course, with an exeat). We made way to his paternal grandmother’s house in Cape Coast who made sure we were properly fed. This henceforth, became one of our reasons to get away from the seniors who were unreasonably wicked at the time.

We went home to Accra and Reginald, by some “luck”, had started “driving” his mother’s Mini Minor. This started our joyriding escapades and the genesis of his interest in cars; a passion he had till the end.

Reggie was also very good at managing things given to him. My dad, after catching up with his father, berated me big time for not being able to account for the things given to me to take to school. Reggie had now become the model child in my dad’s mind when talking about responsible children.

We maintained our brotherhood and both ended up in London at a very early age in the 1980s. Reggie continued to enjoy life to the fullest and was very fashionable, whilst attracting the attention of the ladies. He later on found true love in Olivia whom he married and together had a lovely son, Denzel.

Reggie found the Lord and became involved in instruments, a testament of which he ended up playing the saxophone at Kwaku Agbenu’s funeral a couple of days prior to him being called to heaven

I definitely find his demise so surreal and can only say we live in hope. I am so broken

Adios – Rest peacefully, Bro 🙏🏾💔😭