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 […]
Tag Archives: History
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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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Achimota College was founded in Achimota, Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1924 by Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser, and Sir Gordon Guggisberg, the British Governor of the Gold Coast (1919-1927), as an elite secondary school based on the British model of public education. Governor Guggisberg urged local Gold Coast residents to […]
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Adisadel was established in 1910 in a building at Topp Yard, near Christ Church and Cape Coast Castle. It began with 29 boys, but in 1935 it had about 200. The school buildings were extended in 1950 by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. At the time of the Golden Jubilee in 1960, enrolment had gone […]
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Mfantsipim was the first secondary school to be established on 3 April 1876 in the Gold Coast, and in 1931, was moved to its present location on the Kwabotwe Hill in the northern part of Cape Coast on the Kotokuraba road. The school sometimes has been referred to as Kwabotwe for the reason for it […]
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The school was established in 1836 with 25 girls by the wife of a Methodist minister. The school was named after John Wesley, founder of the Methodist church. Wesley Girls High School started as a primary school with the aim of offering girls training in reading and writing, sewing and house-keeping and spiritual development. Wesley […]
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It turned out that what they have set out to do was an extraordinary undertaking which required more resources and extra support than they had envisaged. It was at this juncture that Mr. Aaron Ofori Atta also known as Kofi Asante Ofori Atta who later became a Cabinet Minister in the First Republic came into […]
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According to Akan Oral tradition ancient traditional medicine in Ghana especially among Akan tribes started with Oracles and deities. Whenever there was a calamity, sickness or epidemic in a community, the elders of that place usually consulted deities for solution. Herbs and concoctions were usually made based on what the Oracle said. With time people […]
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In 1994, when residents in Accra woke up one morning to hear a radio station blaring out copious melodious music, but not from the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Ghanaians realised that private broadcasting had been actualised.! That was how Radio Eye really opened the eyes of Ghanaians to the fact that when in 1977, the Supreme […]
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Bowdich suggests that “The Ashantees and their neighbors must have again been disturbed from time to time, by the several emigrations of the nations of the Mediterranean, whom Buache [Boakye?], in his researches for the construction of a map of Africa for Ptolemy, has at once discovered, by the identity of the names, in the […]