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Accra Academy is a boys' high school located at Bubuashie near Kaneshie in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. It admits both boarding and day students. It admits both boarding and day students. Founded as a private school in 1931, it gained the status of a Government-Assisted School in 1950.
J. K. Okine (Bleoo ‘45), mathematician, headmaster of Accra Academy (1967-1986) Richard Orraca-Tetteh (Bleoo '51), nutritionist Frank Gibbs Torto FGA (Bleoo '36) (foundation student), chemist, first Ghanaian lecturer of the University of Ghana [ 1 ] [ 2 ] foundation member and later president of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences
In 1986, he took up the position of headmaster of Accra Academy from Jacob Okine. Freeman, as headmaster, introduced a computer awareness programme into Accra Academy. [6] Freeman introduced and opened the South gate of the school's campus on the Accra-Winneba highway, and closed down the entry points on the East and West of the school. [3]
Accra Academy; University of Ghana; ... and later Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Arts and Culture. [1] ... education at the Accra Academy from 1944 ...
In July 1961, Allotei Konuah oversaw the relocation of Accra Academy from Ankrah lane in Jamestown to its present location off the Winneba road in Bubiashie. Konuah served as vice chairman of Conference of Heads of Day and Encouraged Secondary Schools (now CHASS), [8] and as a council member of the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi ...
Okine was a non-graduate tutor at Accra Academy from 1948 to 1950 when he took leave for further studies. [1] In 1952, he returned to Accra Academy as a graduate tutor. He taught mathematics, English and Latin. [1] In 1960, he was appointed senior mathematics master and school librarian with responsibility for the school's timetable. [1]
In high school, he was editor of the Accra Academy News for four years. [4] In 1952, he enrolled at Xavier University, New Orleans on a Phelps Stokes Fund scholarship, [5] for his undergraduate degree which he obtained in 1955. [3] [6] While at Xavier, he was the head of the All African Students Union of the Americas. He was also editor of the ...
In 1948, he entered Accra Academy for his secondary education and competed in athletic competitions whilst there. In 1950, he derived the school's slogan Bleoo in response to taunts in a train prior to the elite second-cycle Aggrey Shield Competition in which the school won for the first time and was a member of a group of athletes who ...