Question: The town home to what Fort has the graveyard of an African from what is now Ghana, who became a respected philosopher and teacher at the universities of Halle and Jena in Germany after studying there?

 The town is home to Fort San Sebastian, in whose graveyard philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first African known to have attended a European university, is interred. Shama or Shema is a town with a fishing village, and is the capital of Shama district, a district in the Western Region of Ghana.  The town lies about 20 km east of Sekondi-Takoradi, on the mouth of the Pra River. <SEP> Böttger was born in Aschersleben, Germany in 1806.  After attending the primary school there he joined the school of the Franksche Stiftung in Halle an der Saale at the age of eleven.  In 1824, Böttger started to study theology, but in parallel also attended the science lectures at the University Halle.  The lectures of Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger had a strong influence on him.  Böttger left the university in 1828 and worked as cleric and teacher at different locations.  The contact with Schweigger never faded and in 1831 Böttger decided to leave the theology career.  He was offered a job at the voluntary association for chemistry in Frankfurt in 1835.  His first major work in Frankfurt was the improvement of the electrotyping method for the production of printing plates.  Böttger received his PhD from the University of Jena in 1837 and was appointed as full professor in Frankfurt in 1842.  Böttger married Christiane Harpke in 1841, and they had eight children.  He and Christian Friedrich Schönbein, a German-Swiss chemist, discovered nitrocellulose independently in 1846.  Both scientists collaborated to earn money with the invention, but they were not successful.  The development of the safety match in 1848 and the synthesis of the first organocopper compound, the explosive copper(I) acetylide CuC in 1859 were examples for his chemistry research.  Böttger stayed at the University of Frankfurt am Main for the rest of his life, although he was offered positions at other universities.  He died of a liver illness in 1881. <SEP> Ernan McMullin (1924–2011) was a philosopher who last served as the O’Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.  He was an internationally respected philosopher of science who has written and lectured extensively on subjects ranging from the relationship between cosmology and theology, to the role of values in understanding science, to the impact of Darwinism on Western religious thought.  He is the only person to ever hold the presidency of four of the major US philosophical associations.  He was an expert on the life of Galileo. <SEP> Anton Wilhelm Amo or Anthony William Amo (c. 1703 – c. 1759) was an African from what is now Ghana, who became a respected philosopher and teacher at the universities of Halle and Jena in Germany after studying there.  Brought to Germany by the Dutch West India Company in 1707 as a child, and given as a gift to the Dukes of August Wilhelm and Ludwig Rudolf von Wolfenbuttel, he was treated as a member of the family of Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, he was the first African known to have attended a European university.