Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kwame Nkrumah, Mfantsipim and Achimota schools, what do all these people and educational institutions share for all their intents and purpose?
A straightforward google research will uncover that they all had a connection to Gold Coast scholarly, evangelist, and instructor, Reverend Dr James Emman Kwegyir-Aggrey.
Banda, Azikwe and Nkrumah all turned into the primary leaders of their individual nations in the wake of establishing critical connections with the African freedom during his African visit.
Who is J.E Kwegyir-Aggrey
As indicated by students of history, Kwegyir-Aggrey was conceived in Anomabu in the Central Region on October 18, 1875 to Okyeame Kwadwo Kwegyir, a companion of the then ace chieftain Amonu IV and his significant other, Princess Abena Anowa of Ajumako.
Dr Kwegyir-Aggrey was the seventeenth offspring of his dad and fourth of his mom Abena Anowa, third and last spouse of Okyeame Kwegyir.
He was given his baptism in the Gold Coast and he was named James.
Educational BackgroundÂ
Preceding his eighteenth birthday celebration, he enlisted at the Wesley Boys Senior High School (presently Mfantsipim School) in Cape Coast, where he was noted by his European guides as a skilled and special person as he was at that point learning Greek and Latin. He later turned into the school’s prinicipal
In 1989, he moved to the United States subsequently so that he can be taught to become a preacher. At the Livingstone College, he studied chemistry, physics, logic, economics, and politics as well as him winning 3 degrees and 2 doctorates in theology and osteopathy.
Aggrey was a multilingual person and an etymologist who was known to communicate in English, French, German, Greek and Latin.
Life and CareerÂ
In November 190, he was delegated a priest in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Salisbury. After two years, he wedded his significant better-half and companion, Rose Douglas, a local of Virginia and the couple had four kids during their marriage.
In 1920 he visited Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Gold Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria. In 1921 he visited the Belgian Congo, Angola and South Africa which had a critical effect on the informed elites and freedom developments in these nations.
His enthusiastic discourse persuaded Governor Guggsiberg to turn Achimota school to a co-instructive foundation. He was delegated as the first Vice Principal of Achimota School by Sir Guggisberg so as to help Rev Fraser.
“The surest method to hold individuals down is to teach the men and disregard the ladies. On the off chance that you instruct a man, you just teach an individual, yet on the off chance that you teach a lady, you instruct an entire country,” Aggrey said.
James Kwegyir-Aggrey taught Dr Kwame Nkrumah as his student whiles he was in Achimota School then Government Training College and presented him to Marcus Garvey and other social liberties activists.
He planned the insignia of Achimota School and migrated to Ghana with his better half and youngsters. In May 1927 he went back to the United States, and in July he was admitted to a clinic in Harlem, New York, where he kicked the bucket soon thereafter.
Aggrey is being burried in the Oakdale Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina.
At the point when the Bank of Ghana praised its 60th Anniversary in 2017, it respected him by utilizing his picture on the dedicatory 5 cedis bill.
The Aggrey Memorial A.M.E. Zion Senior High School in Cape Coast was named after him.
Achimota School and Mfantsipim additionally named their sanctuary and private structures for male understudies separately after its celebrated child.
Structures named after Aggrey incorporate Aggrey Student Union at Livingstone College, and J.E.K. Aggrey Memorial Gymtorium at Landis Elementary School, which was comstructed in the previous area of Aggrey Memorial High School, and in 1933 for African-American kids.