St Mary Senior High School at Korle Gonnor in Accra was established on 6th February 1950 by two dedicated Catholic missionary sisters and Servants of the Holy Spirit. The school started with just ten girls and a staff of two reverend sisters namely, the late Rev. Sisters Jane and Rosette. The school has academic ties […]
Tag Archives: Accra Academy
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May
May
The first Headmaster of the Accra Academy, Dr Kofi George Konuah; an educationist, who once served as deputy to Nii Kwabena Bonne, then Osu Alata Mantse, on Bonne’s Anti Inflation committee, which was set up to demand a reduction in the prices of foreign goods in the country at the time. Dr Konuah served as […]
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May
May
To satisfy the urgent need for a secondary school which would provide good tuition at a reasonable cost to the non-affluent sector of Accra and its environs four young men, all below thirty years of age established the Accra Academy. The school was founded on Monday, 20th July 1931 by Dr. Kofi George Konuah, Messrs. […]
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Apr
Apr
Mostly, the mission schools in Ghana provided rudimentary teaching at the primary level. In fact, it was still traditional for students seeking higher education to travel to either Europe or the Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone. It is also significant to note that, because effective colonial authority could not be secured in the Asante […]