Achimota School

Achimota School (/ɑːtʃimoʊtɑː/ ah-ch-ee-m-oh-t-ah), eɛ Prince of Wales College ane School nang be Achimota, da wa ta la wagre kaŋa e Achimota College, k'a o yokpɛglaa e Motown, eɛ a co-educational boarding school naŋ be Achimota a Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana. A sakuuri da taa la sommo 1924 yi Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey ani a Rev. Alec Garden Fraser. O paa da taa la yuobu a 1927 yi Guggisberg, saŋa na Governor ko a British Gold Coast colony. Achimota, modelled ko a British public school system, da eɛ a dandaŋ mixed-gender school naŋ da taa iibo ko a Gold Coast. Yiiri Achimota School taa daba pie ne ayɔpoi ka a pɔgeba meŋ taa ba biiri yiri a Eastern (E) ani a Western (W) Compounds Daba yiri Fraser House (W) – named after Alec Garden Fraser (formerly House 12) Aggrey House (E) – named after James Kwegyir Aggrey; first house to be established on campus Guggisberg House (E) – named after Sir Gordon Guggisberg Gyamfi House (E) – named after a former student and member of the Asante royal family. Gyamfi died while a student at Achimota, and one of the consequences of his death was that the Asante Kingdom decided to have its own version of Achimota closer to home, thus was born Prempeh College. Cadbury House (E) – named after Cadbury Lugard House (E) – named after Lord Lugard, former Governor of Nigeria Livingstone House (E) – named after David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary explorer of Africa Kwapong House (W) – named after Alexander Kwapong, alumnus and first African Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon and Vice Rector of the UN University, Tokyo Pɔgeba yiri Kingsley House (E) – named after Mary Kingsley, an English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer McCarthy House (E) – named after Sir Charles McCarthy, a former British military governor to territories in West Africa (McCarthy House was formerly a male house and an Engineering School) Slessor House (E) – named after Mary Mitchell Slessor, a Scottish missionary in Nigeria Clark House (E) – named after English missionary Mary Clark. It was the first female house to be built. Ofori-Atta House (W) – named after Susan Ofori-Atta, alumna and Ghana's first female medical doctor (formerly House 11) Baeta-Jiagge House (W) – named after Annie Jiagge, alumna and the first woman to become a judge in Ghana and the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly House 17) Stopford House (W) – named in honour of Anglican Bishop and school principal (1941–45), Robert Stopford (formerly a male house and later, a female house, O. A. A. House and earlier, House 18) Atta Mills House (E) – named after John Evans Atta Mills, alumnus and President of Ghana (2009–12) Aryee House (E) – named after Joyce Aryee, alumna, politician and business executive School Profile Summary School Category Category A School Code 0010110 School Accommodation Day/Boarding School Gender Mixed (Boys/Girls) School Courses Course programme categories offered at the school: Agriculture Home Economics Visual Arts General Arts General Science STEM(added 2024) School Motto Ut Omnes Unum Sint (That They All May Be One) Principals ani heads Ziiri mine linkiri Official website Tɛmpileti:Commons-inline Sommo Yizie