St Augustine’s College – Blazing the trail: 90 Years of Excellence. Named after the Patron Saint Aurelius Augustinus, St. Augustine’s College is every bit a reflection of the life of the illustrious saint. Established some 90 years ago, this great institution has been through thick and thin, ups and downs, happy and sad moments, and […]
Author Archives: Henry Kwadwo Amoako
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PRESEC was located in Odumase – Krobo till 1st of September, 1968 when it was rehoused at its new permanent location at Legon – Mile 9, north-east of the University of Ghana. At the new campus it continued as a boys’ boarding secondary school until the mid 1970s when the sixth form was upgraded to the National Science […]
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PRESEC – Legon is currently 81 years and from Odumase to Legon, still Ghana’s finest secondary school for boys. From a humble enrolment of 16 pioneer-students and 4 tutors in 1938, the current population is 3,870 boys, with 70 classrooms, 178 teachers, 75 non-teaching staff and 20 national service personnel. The cry of the Presbyterian […]
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THE NAMING OF THE SCHOOL When the time came to get the School a fitting and permanent name, it was very strongly suggested by some of the leading chiefs of the State, that is, the influential members of the Okyeman Council, that it should be named after its benefactor, the Okyenhene, thus “Nana Sir Ofori […]
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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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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 […]
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Aggrey Memorial A.M.E. Zion Secondary School was founded on 22nd January, 1940 by the late Rev. Dr. A. W. E. Appiah with six boys. He named the school Aggrey Memorial College after his late Uncle Dr. J. E. Kwegyir Aggrey. His aim was to perpetuate the memory of his uncle by means of an institution, […]
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Aburi Girls Senior High School was formally established as a secondary school for girls in the year 1946. However, its origin dates as far back as 1852, when the Basel Mission opened a school at primary level for girls at their mission station inside the town. The primary school continued until its takeover by the […]
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The Methodist church established the school in 1940, apparently to fill a vacuum left by the establishment of Mmofraturo Girls Boarding School. The Church needed a middle boarding school for only boys. The school started in a located directly opposite Freeman College, Kumasi, Ghana. Within a few years, the enrolment shot up and as a […]
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Following the establishment of Mfantsipim School (Methodist) and Adisadel College (Anglican) in 1876 and 1910 respectively, the Catholic community in Ghana were eager for the establishment of Roman Catholic-based education in Ghana. On 15 January 1935, Bishop Porter blessed and led a ceremony for the laying of the foundation-stone of St. Augustine’s College, which was […]
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On the 8th of November, 1953 – Bishop J. O. Bowers SVD came to New Juabeng Traditional Area on his first Pastoral Visit. Discussions with Nana Frempong Manso II led to the Catholic Mission. Father Anthony Bauer and Fr. Henk Janseen were asked to survey the land. Their report was favourable. In 1955 – early […]
AFRICAN TRIBES, RESEARCH
The Story of Awule Kaku Aka I: King of Nzema 1840s (Extended Narrative) Part 2
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Awule Kaku Aka’s kingship peaked in the 1840s when he decided to unite Nzema people. To do this he needed to free some Nzema tribes from the oppression of the Anyi. So he set out to fight him and succeeded in beheading him! He put out more strategies to annex some Anyin land in the […]
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Nana Kaku Aka l ruled the Nzema Kingdom in the 1840s and climaxed at the time of the signing of the Bond of 1844 between the British and Coastal Chiefs. He was captured by the British and was sent to prison after he refused to sign the Bond of 1844. After his capture the Nzema […]
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Dixcove is a fishing town, dominated by the brightly white Fort Metal Cross, which was built by the British in 1692. Dixcove has a natural harbour that is big enough for small ships. Fishing is the main economic activity in the town. Dixcove town is 35 km from Takoradi, and 250 km from Accra. The […]
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The earliest history of formal, western-style education in Ghana is directly associated with the history of European activities on the Gold Coast. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive at the Guinea coast in 1471. Their intention to establish schools was expressed in imperial instructions that, in 1529, encouraged the Governor of the Portuguese […]
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The white education system in South Africa was restructured, in anticipation of democracy, by the apartheid government. From the beginning of 1991, white schools were required to select one of four “Models”: A, B, C, or D. “Model C” was a semi-private structure, with decreased funding from the state, and greatly increased autonomy for schools. […]
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The 1820s was a period of conflict between the British and the dominant Asante (Ashanti) kingdom to the hinterland. Between 1815 and 1820, all the major European establishments sent emissaries to the Asante capital of Kumase to negotiate increased commercial relations. However, disagreements between Asante officials and the British led to the war of 1823-1824, […]
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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 […]
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Ghana obtained its independence in 1957. The new government of Nkrumah described education as the key to the future and announced a high level university providing an “African point of view”, backed by a free universal basic education. In 1958, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah established an Educational Trust which contributed to the building of secondary schools […]
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The origins of African education may be found in Egypt in Northern Africa. One of the first convenient mediums for retaining information, papyrus, was used to develop systems for learning and developing new ideas. In fact, one of the first forms of higher education in Africa were the School of Holy Scriptures built in Ethiopia […]