It is not how many times you fail at something. What really defines your journey is how many times you keep trying, get up and put one foot in front of the other and march on despite the challenges.

11 years ago Adelaide Abena Frimpomaa Baah-Frimpong started studying Law. She failed at her first attempt at the entrance exam to law school. She was denied a visa twice to do her LLM in the US. She wrote numerous failed papers again. She went through a painful divorce and struggled to secure a job.

Now Adelaide is a Barrister at Law and is inspiring others with her story.

She shared her story on LinkedIn and wrote:

“I started studying Law in 2011 and finished my first degree in 2015. 

 I failed my first attempt at the entrance exam to law school.

 I decided to go do my LLM in the US. I applied and got all the supporting documents. I went for the visa   interview and got denied. 6 months later I tried again and still got denied visa. 

 A day after the denial, I wrote the entrance exam again and got admission in 2016. 

 I wrote my first Bar exam in 2017 and failed 4 papers which meant all the 6 I passed were wasted and I needed to repeat the course. I had now delivered my daughter through C.S and faced postpartum depression alone and secretly so I deferred the course in 2018. 

I was going  through a painful separation but decided to try again. A week to the Bar exam, I received a petition for divorce which broke me all over again. 

I knew I had to defer again to 2020 because I knew another failure would ruin me forever. 

I went back to law school again in 2020. I was bitter, sad and hurt but I still went anyway. 

I wrote my first 6 papers and failed 2. 

In 2021 I sat for the 2 failed papers with the 4 I had to write that year. I failed 2 again out of the 6 papers.

This year, March 2022, I wrote the 2 papers I failed. 

I passed and found my name in the enrollment list. 

June 24, 2022 became the day I was called to the Bar,

I just want to inspire you reading this today. If you think you’ve struggled too much, just hold on and don’t give up.” 

Indeed perseverance pays and delay is not denial.

Congratulations Adelaide Abena Frimpomaa Baah-Frimpong.