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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
He also instituted a lectures series; the Accra Academy Foundation Lectures, and invited Paul Boateng, a Member of the House of Commons, as its first speaker. [7] Freeman compiled a school hymnal from the Methodist English hymnal in 1993. In this, he published an account of the school's beginnings to get students have the school's history. [8]
In 1934, he became a member of the teaching staff of the Accra Academy. Two year after this, he underwent a study-leave and returned to the teaching staff in 1938. In addition to his teaching duties, he served as sports master and, in 1947, he was instrumental in the admission of the Accra Academy to the fold of Aggrey Shield competing schools.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Accra, ... Accra Academy established. ... W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture established ...
Beatrice Ablah Lokko (6 September 1949 - 10 January 2010) [1] was a Ghanaian teacher who was headmistress of Accra Academy from 1997 to 2005. [2] [3] She was an assistant headmistress from 1990 to 1996 to V. B. Freeman and became acting headmistress in 1996, after Freeman retired.
A. Nana Kwabena Wiafe; Francis Abban; Randy Abbey; Bright Tetteh Ackwerh; Kofi Acquah-Dadzie; W. C. O. Acquaye-Nortey; J. K. Acquaye; Nicholas Yaw Boafo Adade
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.