Kwadwo Asiedu, father of a Rastafarian boy, Marcus who has obtained admission to study at Aggrey Memorial Senior High, offers thanked the management from the school for the gesture. He or she took to Facebook and had written, “My heartfelt appreciation plus respect to the HeadMistress associated with Aggrey Memorial Senior High School, Shawl Coast, also to the Mature House Mistress, Senior Home Master and the staff plus management of the school to get granting my Rasta Child admission into the school…. Marcus is most grateful to become given the opportunity to compete academically with the other students…
We call on the top mistress of Achimota schoo to stop the discrimination, segregation, racism and the hate plan against Rasta..
We thank all those who’ve been with us during this trying times. ”ABOUT AGGREY MEMORIAL: The entire year was 1940. The country had been pre-independence Ghana (Gold Coastline and the city – the particular blossoming citadel of schooling, Cape Coast). A gallant educationist, Dr . James Kwegyir Aggrey had passed great nephew, the late Revolution. Dr . A. W. Electronic. Appiah, in seeking to perpetuate the memory of their uncle, founded Aggrey Funeral A. M. E. Zion Secondary School on 22nd January, 1940. The new organization was to give young girls and boys an opportunity to attain adequate supplementary education which would fit all of them into higher fields associated with learning. Aggrey is therefore a living tribute to that excellent son of Africa – Dr . Kwegyir Aggrey. The college was first christened, Aggrey Funeral College and enrolled 6 boys as its first college students. It occupied, successively, structures in the heart of Shawl Coast Township during the very first few years. In April 1940 and with a population associated with ten boys, the school relocated to “Bucknor Villa” in Shawl Coast. In January, 1944, Mr. Henry Abaidoo-Brew had been appointed the first Assistant Headmaster. The late Mr. Kofi Bentsi-Enchill, a Cape Coastline merchant, very generously provided to pay his salary as well as the rent for the premises. Within 1945, a Board associated with Trustees and Management referred to as “Aggrey Society” was created. Members of the Board had been Mr. Kofi Bentsi-Enchill (Chairman), Dr . J. W. Sobre Graft-Johnson, Mr. W. Watts. O. Lindsay, Mr. L. Magnus Sampson, Mr. S i9000. S. Wood and Main Kweku Egyir Gyepi, II. In 1947, the Africa Methodist Episcopal (A. Meters. E. ) Zion Cathedral took over the school as a result of contract between “Aggrey Society” as well as the A. M. E. Zion Mission. The name of the school had been then changed from “Aggrey Memorial College” to Aggrey Memorial A. M. Electronic. Zion Secondary School. ”The School moved in Oct 1948 to a three-story constructing on the premises of the previous Cape Coast Post Office close to Cape Coast Castle. Within 1958, the A. Mirielle. E. Zion Church obtained a 43-acre land, launched as a Deed of Present by Nana Attobra from the Nsona Stool Family of Brafoyaw, to the school. After eighteen years on temporary property, the school moved to its existing site at Brafoyaw, Shawl Coast in January, 1958. Girls in the boarding home were, however , housed within Cape Coast Township upon premises formerly occupied with the “Prospect Printing Press”. Upon 21st January 1966, girls moved into their new dormitory block across the boys in the Accra-Takoradi road at BrafoyawThe school’s alumi, the Aggrey Memorial Old Students Organization, popularly known as AMOSA is among the most vibrant nationwide. People are known as Nkor, the particular Fante word for novelty helmet, the school’s totem. Resource: MyNewsGh. com/2021
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