The Boakyewaa Glover Show

Boakyewaa Glover, organisational psychologist and author, has quietly launched one of the most authentic and raw YouTube series in Ghana. The Boakyewaa Glover Show focuses on topics related to life, health, and relationships, with a heavy emphasis on mental health. What makes the show different is Boakyewaa’s directness, realness, and vulnerability. She goes there—openly discussing topics that are often unspoken or taboo, candidly and openly.

The show’s first episode is titled Brilliance Interrupted – The Story of James Amoako Glover and sets the tone for everything else that follows on the show. Boakyewaa’s father, James Amoako Glover, was a prominent lawyer who worked with former President Nana Akufo-Addo.

He suffered from schizophrenia and lived on the streets for decades, resisting help until later in life when he finally accepted treatment. Sadly, he passed away less than a year after getting healthy. Boakyewaa shares this story with such strength and resolve, though traces of emotional pain are evident in her voice.

She says she’s sharing her lived experiences to help break the stigma of mental illness, which has pervaded Ghanaian culture for decades. At 46, this is her first time telling her father’s story publicly, and she often wishes she had done so sooner. It is a very poignant and deeply touching episode, showing directly, the impact of mental illness on loved ones.

Boakyewaa has been in consistent therapy for over two years. As an organisational psychologist with a family history of mental illness and a neurodivergent child, the psychological landscape is familiar to her. But in 2023, while juggling a new demanding job, a challenging relationship, and multiple court cases, she reached her limit and sought help for herself.

“When you have a family history of medical conditions like diabetes, hypertension, or cancer, most people get screened early, recognising the risk that family history presents. I decided to take the same approach to my mental health. 2023 was a very difficult year, everything felt heavy. I was afraid that with stress and genetics, schizophrenia could happen to me too. So I got help.”

She was not diagnosed with schizophrenia, but she is in treatment for other equally difficult challenges. During the 2025 Mental Health Forum, she gave a powerful speech on generational mental health, tracing her father’s story, her son’s ADHD and PTSD (from a gas explosion and attempted kidnapping), and then opening up about her own experiences, including a PTSD diagnosis following a helicopter crash (a national incident involving a military helicopter that crashed with the remains of former chief of defense staff, Air Marshall M. A. Otu, her grandfather), persistent depressive disorder, borderline personality disorder, and a devastating heartbreak that landed her in the ER.