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Kofi George Konuah
Dr. Kofi George Konuah (19 August 1904 – 6 June 1996) was a Ghanaian educationist and statesman who served as Chairman of the Public Services Commission of Ghana from 1962 to 1970 and Chairman of the Audit Service Board from 1970 to 1974. As an educationist, he is known for being a co-founder and the first principal of Accra Academy, an all-boys secondary school located in Accra. Early life Kofi George Konuah was born on 19 August 1904 in Kumasi, Ashanti to parents of Ga-Adangbe ethnic origin. His father, Alexander Konuah, a Gold Coast civil servant, was an assistant treasurer in the colonial service.Michael R. Doortmont, ''The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison: A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony'', Brill, 2005, p. 274. Paternally, Alexander belonged to the Bruce family of British Jamestown, and maternally to the Konuah family of Elmina. Due to a personal feud with his father’s family, Alexander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orders, Decorations, And Medals Of Ghana
There are four orders in Ghana: Order of the Star of Ghana, Order of the Volta, Medal for Gallantry and Grand Medal. These were instituted in 1960 as a replacement for the British honours system that was conferred under the British Gold Coast, Gold Coast and the Dominion of Ghana. The first National Honours and Awards ceremony under the new system was administered by Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah. President John Kufuor added a controversial Grand Order of the Star and Eagles of Ghana in June 2008. Traditional Orders Order of the Star of Ghana The ribbon is 35 mm wide with three equal stripes of red, yellow, and green. * Companion (CSG) - Honorary Division, Civil Division * Officer (OSG) - Honorary Division, Civil Division, Military Division * Member (MSG) - Civil Division, Military Division, Police Division, Honorary Division Order of the Volta Ribbon: navy blue with red borders and a central black stripe. * Companion (CV) - Civil Division, Military Divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sierra Leonne
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and environments ranging from savannas to rainforests. As of the 2023 census, Sierra Leone has a population of 8,460,512. Freetown is its capital and largest city. Sierra Leone is a presidential republic, with a unicameral parliament and a directly elected president. It is a secular state. Its Constitution of Sierra Leone, constitution provides for the separation of state and religion and freedom of conscience. Muslims constitute three-quarters of the population, and there is a significant Christian minority. Notably, religious tolerance is very high. Sierra Leone's current territorial configuration was established in two phases: in 1808, the coastal Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate, Sierra Leone Colony was founded as a place to resettle retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Godson Bruce-Konuah
William Godson Bruce-Konuah (14 May 1932 – 2 October 2002) was a Ghanaian physician, politician and a minister of state in the Second Republic. Early years and education He was born on 14 May 1932. His father was Dr. Kofi George Konuah, ; an educationist. He had his early education at the Accra Government boys' school from 1936 to 1945 and proceeded to the Accra Academy where he had his secondary education from 1946 to 1951. In 1955 he enrolled at Norwood College, London where he was awarded his intermediate bachelor's degree in 1957 and also the University of Liverpool from 1958 to 1963 for his bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (Mb Chb). Career After his secondary education he taught at his alma mater; the Accra Academy from 1953 to 1955. After his tertiary education in Liverpool he returned to Ghana to work with the ministry of Health as a medical officer at Korle bu and later senior medical officer in charge of Tema Health Services and also in charge of Tema Gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Church
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Most are members of national or regional Ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion, ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, one of the largest Christian bodies in the world, and the world's third-largest Christian communion. When united and uniting churches, united churches in the Anglican Communion and the breakaway Continuing Anglican movement were not counted, there were an estimated 97.4 million Anglicans worldwide in 2020. Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The provinces within the Anglican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Liberation Council
The National Liberation Council (NLC) led the Ghanaian government from 24 February 1966 to 1 October 1969. The body emerged from a ''coup d'état'' against the Nkrumah government carried out jointly by the Ghana Police Service and Ghana Armed Forces with collaboration from the Ghana Civil Service. The new government implemented structural adjustment policies recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Money in the national budget shifted away from agriculture and industrialization towards the military. National enterprises, property, and capital were privatized or abandoned. Nkrumah had condemned the development projects of multinational corporations as signs of neocolonialism. The NLC allowed foreign conglomerates to operate on extremely favorable terms. The Ghanaian cedi was devalued by 30%. These economic changes did not succeed in reducing the country's debt or in increasing the ratio of exports to imports. The National Liberation Council regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convention People's Party
The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC). Origins The Convention People's Party is descended from a line of political movements formed in the early half of the 20th century to spearhead the anti-colonial struggle in the Gold Coast. The movement that preceded it was the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) formed in August 1947 and led predominantly by members of the professional and business classes. To expand its support base and step up the struggle for independence, the leadership of the UGCC decided to appoint a permanent general secretary to lead its expansion and step up the pace of change. Ebenezer Ako Adjei, then a young lawyer, was offered the paid secretaryship of the UGCC but he declined the position and instead proposed Kwame Nkrumah, a political activist then i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghana Institute Of Management And Public Administration
The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) is a public co-educational university spread over four campuses (Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Takoradi) and made up of six schools, ten research centers located at Greenhill in Accra, Ghana. The location of GIMPA, Greenhill, was named by Nicholas T. Clerk (1930 – 2012) who served as the Rector of the institute from 1977 to 1982. The name, "Greenhill", is a reference to the lush greenery and hilly topography of the main campus, as well as its location in Legon which was historically on the periphery of the Ghanaian capital, Accra. Together with 200 state institutions, GIMPA successfully participated in a Public Sector Reform Programme under the auspices of the World Bank and became a self-financing institution as part of the National Institutional Reform Programme in 2001. History It was established as a public university by an Act of Parliament in 2004. The institute was established in 1961 by the Government o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghana International School
Ghana International School is a coeducational international school located at Cantonment, Accra, Ghana. Ghana International School has an enrollment of diverse backgrounds. The student population derives from many countries and cultural orientations. History It was established in 1955. Legal structure Ghana International School is a company limited by guarantee. Academics GIS uses international curriculum and their students sit for international examinations like. IGCSE GCE O-Level and GCE A-level The A-level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational au .... It is a day only mixed educational facility in Ghana delivering English National Curriculum. GIS is accredited by the Council of International Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. The school operates four d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Maude
John Cyril Maude KC (3 April 1901 – 16 August 1986) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1945 to 1951, and then became a judge. Early life Maude was the son of the actors Cyril Maude and Winifred Emery. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1925 at the Middle Temple. Career He was the Recorder of Devizes from 1939 to 1944, and of Plymouth from 1944 to 1954. He became a King's Counsel in 1943, and a bencher in 1951. He was Counsel to the Post Office at the Central Criminal Court from 1935 to 1942, and junior counsel to the Treasury from 1942 to 1942. During the Second World War, he served as a temporary Civil Assistant at the War Office in 1939. In 1940 he joined the Military Intelligence Corps with the rank of Major, and worked in the offices of the War Cabinet in 1942. He was elected at the 1945 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter. Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nii Kwabena Bonnie III
Nii Kwabena Bonnie III (1888 – 1968), also known as Kwamla Theodore Taylor, was a Ghanaian (Ga) traditional ruler in Gold Coast, a British colony in West Africa, in 1947. He was a chief of Osu Alata Mantse and Oyokohene of Techiman. Life and career In 1947, he formed an Anti-Inflation Campaign in Accra in response to the inflated prices by the European imported goods to Ghana. He directed his letter to the United Africa Company. In waiting for the response he toured the country to explain the plan for a boycott throughout the cities. The chiefs who supported or pledged to join the boycott were in Sekondi, Manya Krobo, Cape Coast, Suhum, Akim Oda, Tarkwa, and Axim. He became the first Gold Coaster to earn an invitation from the British Royal Couple to tour Buckingham Palace in February 1925.He also hosted Sir Osei Agyemang Prempeh II, the Asantehene, and 500 entourage at the Royal Castle and its precincts in Accra for the inauguration of the 1946 Constitution, an invitation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principal (education)
A headmaster/headmistress, head teacher, head, school administrator, principal or school director (sometimes another title is used) is the staff member of a school with the greatest responsibility for the management of the school. Role While some head teachers still do some teaching themselves, in most larger schools, most of their duties are managerial and pastoral. Their duties often include disciplining misbehaving students and helping to organize school-sponsored activities, and teachers report to them. In Australia, the head teacher is sometimes in charge of one (in the case of a major subject) or multiple (often in smaller schools) specific departments, such as English, history, maths, science, writing, technology, etc., but maintains full teaching duties and status. They are considered part of the school executive, and often a head teacher position is a stepping-stone into administration. Rapid demographic changes in the United States have resulted in an increasingly c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achimota School
Achimota School (Help:IPA/English, /ɑːtʃimoʊtɑː/ ), formerly Prince of Wales College and School at Achimota, later Achimota College, now nicknamed Motown, is a co-educational boarding school located at Achimota in Accra, Greater Accra Region, Greater Accra, Ghana. The school was founded in 1924 by Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey and the Rev. Alexander (Alec) Garden Fraser, Rev. Alec Garden Fraser. It was formally opened in 1927 by Sir Guggisberg, then Governor of the British Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast colony. Achimota, modelled on the Public school (United Kingdom), British public school system, was the first Mixed-gender education, mixed-gender school to be established on the Gold Coast. The school has educated many Ghanaian leaders, including Kwame Nkrumah, Edward Akufo-Addo, Jerry Rawlings, Jerry John Rawlings, and John Evans Atta Mills all of whom are former Heads of State of Ghana. Kofi Abrefa Busia, a former Ghanaian head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
