Every morning begins with a cross-continental FaceTime video call.
Ebenezer Dowuona, a 6-foot-10 four-star big man and 2020 Ohio State target, wakes up in Georgia and picks up his phone around 7 a.m. to see and hear from his mother, who still lives in Ghana. He hasn’t been back to his native country or his hometown of Accra since he and his brother, Emmanuel, left Africa for the United States in 2014 with a legal guardian who had a connection to the family.
When he chose to depart the only home he knew at the age of 12 with his older brother, Dowuona gave up the chance to see his younger brother, who was just 6 months old at the time, grow up.