Her television programme, Inside Out, puts her in your face every week. Those who are familiar with the programme could testify to the fact that Agatha Amata says it the way she sees it. The mother of two, who‘s blunt and outspoken, bares it all to SAMUEL AWOYINFA
She knew very early in life that her passion was to be in the communication world, where she could reach so many people at the same time, through the power of the broadcast medium. But was it parental preference or was it fate that moved her into the world of science, as she toyed with zoology, chemistry before she eventually settled for botany in the university?
”In those days, parents preferred their children being doctors and all that,” she begins. ”But I was taken to study zoology. In my first year, they gave me a rat to dissect, I did not touch the rat, I am always scared of animals. But I drew it, because I was familiar with the internal organs of a rat. I had crammed the diagram from the text book. So, the lecturer called and said ‘your rat is still whole but there is fine diagram here, how did you do it?‘ Then, he said I had to dissect it. I ended up with low mark, because I failed to dissect that rat.”
With that she says she had to leave zoology. Some few months later she crossed over to chemistry department. Again she had to move. ”That course requires a lot of calculations and I discovered that I did more of calculations. It was not that easy, I had to work doubly hard to pass. I could pass well If I really put myself into it, but I concluded that why do I want to punish myself.
“That was how I ended up with botany. The plants were beautiful. They did not give me any stress. I could draw and label them. They don‘t talk back to me, they don‘t run around.
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