The 1991 national conference in Togo effectively removed Eyadéma from power and installed an arch-rival, Joseph Kokou Koffigoh, as leader of a new provisional government. The victory was short-lived, however. Armed forces loyal to Eyadéma mounted a siege of Lome’s government establishments in the winter of 1991, taking Koffigoh prisoner. By mid-1992 Koffigoh had named […]
Author Archives: Henry Kwadwo Amoako
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On January 13th 1963 President Sylvanus Olympio was assassinated in a military coup by a group of eight Togolese militants led by Emmanuel Bodjolle, under direction of Sergeant Étienne Eyadéma Gnassingbé. Shock of Olympio’s assassination (which is remembered as the first President in Africa to be assassinated in a military coup) rippled throughout Togo and […]
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In 1900, the Trinindadian barrister – Henry Sylvester Williams – called a conference that took place in Westminster Hall, London to “protest stealing of lands in the colonies, racial discrimination and deal with other issues of interest to Blacks”. This conference drafted a letter to the Queen of England and other European rulers appealing to […]
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The modern conception of Pan-Africanism, if not the term itself, dates from at least the mid-nineteenth-century. The slogan, “Africa for the Africans,” popularized by Marcus Garvey’s (1887–1940) Declaration of Negro Rights in 1920, may have originated in West Africa, probably Sierra Leone, around this time. Pan-Africanist ideas first began to circulate in the mid-19th century […]
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Part of what makes highlife a unique musical genre is its method of melding traditional and contemporary sounds from all corners of Africa and the world. When highlife began to gain momentum in the early 1900s, it was known for incorporating foreign guitar techniques, creating layers of sound and cultural fusion on top of existing […]
POLITICAL HISTORY, RESEARCH
The Political History of Africa: Before The Formation of Empires in Africa (Part 2)
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The Middle Kingdom of Egypt arose when Mentuhotep II of Eleventh Dynasty unified Egypt once again between 2041 and 2016 BC beginning with his conquering of Tenth Dynasty in 2041 BC. Pyramid building resumed, long-distance trade re-emerged, and the center of power moved from Memphis to Thebes. Connections with the southern regions of Kush, Wawat […]
POLITICAL HISTORY, RESEARCH
The Political History of Africa: Before The Formation of Empires in Africa
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North Africa was one of the key areas of early enlightenment in Africa. The ancient history of North Africa is inextricably linked to that of the Ancient Near East. This is particularly true of Ancient Egypt and Nubia. In the Horn of Africa the Kingdom of Aksum ruled modern-day Eritrea, northern Ethiopia and the coastal […]
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Prior to European colonization in the late 19th century, Africa had a very long history of state building as well as a rich variety of social formations that were decentralized or stateless. Some of the first examples of state formation in human history developed in the Nile River valley in the 4th millennium BCE. Nevertheless, […]
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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 […]
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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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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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Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) opened in 1909 as the Accra Government Technical School (AGTS). Initially, it occupied buildings in what was the premises of the Accountant General’s Department (current site of Kinbu Secondary Technical School). Governor John Pickersgill Rodger did the opening on 9th August 1909. That year, the Technical School and a Teacher […]
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By September 1967 the school was relocated when a fifteen-unit classroom block was completed together with a two-storey science block. 1967, Mr. A.N.B Andrews, had then taken over from Mr. Sanful Snr. as headmaster. Mr. Andrews leadership saw further developments in infrastructure such as a ten-unit classroom block, a home science block, a technical block […]
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Accra High School was founded by the late Rev. James Thomas Roberts on 17 August 1923. The school, was located at beach avenue in Aayalolo, a suburb of Accra, Ghana. The school celebrated its first anniversary in August 1924 with a church service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Accra and the sermon was delivered by […]
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In 2016 Krobo Girls SHS celebrated 90 years of Excellence in Girls’ Education. Krobo Girls’ Senior High School was founded by female Scottish Missionaries in March 1927, as a Middle School for girls. A two-year teacher training college for women was added to the girls school in 1944 on experimental basis under the accelerated plan […]
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On January 15, 1935, the foundation stone was laid by the then Governor, Arnold Hodson and blessed by Bishop Porter with support from the Bishops of Keta, Navrongo and Kumasi. Construction work progressed steadily and almost a year after, the training college was transferred to Cape Coast. A year and week after the laying of […]