Mfantsipim School
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 107 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5087-6062-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mfantsipim was the first secondary school to be established in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1876, and in 1905 it moved to its present location at Kwabotwe Hill in the northern part of the town, at the top of Kotokoraba Road in Cape Coast. The school sometimes has been referred to as "Kwabotwe" for that reason. It has turned out some of the country's best known public figures in all walks of life, men such as Alex Quaison-Sackey, the first black African to serve as President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Dr. K A Busia, Kofi Annan, the former UN General Secretary. It was deemed to be a Grammar School because Latin and Greek were taught but the school also offered carpentry, art and crafts and it has generally been known as "Mfantsipim School". It was an all-boys boarding school although the intake included a small number of "day students", that is, pupils who attended school from home. Girls were later admitted to the sixth...