Abuakwa State College is a co-ed second cycle institution in Kibi in Eastern Region of Ghana.
The school was established in 1936 by three elders of the Methodist Church at Asafo-Akyem as a preparatory institution to prepare Ghanaian students who wanted to sit the then Junior Cambridge Examination.
It was relocated to Kyebi in 1967 to enable more students especially those from Abuakwa to enroll in the school. It is the first public secondary school or senior high school in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
THE FOUNDING
In 1936, three Elders of the Methodist Church of Asafo-Akyem, namely, Mr. Okai, Mr. Otchere and Mr. Addo Atkins decided to build an “Upper” School” for the Asafo Akyem Methodist Middle School.
Their immediate aim was to prepare the students for the Junior Cambridge Examination. They consulted one Mr. Fred Adae who had been teaching at Mfantsipim School.
Mr. Adae agreed with their decision and advised them to seek the guidance and consent of Nana Sir Ofori Attah, the Okyenhene about their decision.
They did that and the Okyenhene also gave his royal consent and undertook to bear the cost of running the school, because “it was a clinking good idea”.
Thus the School was started. The boarders were housed in a section of Mr. Okai’s house and classes were held in the rooms vacated by the Middle School. The students were quite big and fairly old and there were no girls.
Mr. A.E.K. Ofori Attah, a former headmaster of the school in the early days recalls that “being young and smallish at the time, I easily passed as a student and even conveniently played in the school football team”
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