Ghana National College

Ghana National College is a secondary school in Cape Coast, on the coast of Ghana. It is rated as one of the areas top schools. [cite book | last=Coe | first=Cati | publisher=University of Chicago Press| year=2005 | isbn=0226111296 | pages=p.208 | title= Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism, and the Transformation of Knowledge]

Overview

It was founded on July 20 1948, staffed by dismissed teachers from St Augustines College and Mfantsipim."Hon. Lee Ocran, Member of Parliament for Jomoro" in an address to the Parliament of Ghana, February 26, 2007] The college was founded by the first Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah using his own funds, for eight students who had been expelled by the British colonial administration from St. Augustine’s College. The expulsion resulted from a protest march, held in solidarity with Nkrumah who was then imprisoned. [cite web | url=http://www.apanews.net/apa.php?page=cult_sqt_article_eng&id_article=37320 | title=Ghana: Nkrumah’s school to exhibit his scholarly works | publisher = African Press Agency | accessdate=2007-01-23 | date = 2007-07-15]

Notable alumni

* Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyi. [cite web | url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/people/pop-up.php?ID=136 | title=Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyi | accessdate=2007-01-23 | publisher=ghanaweb.com]
* J.J Mensah-Kane. First headmaster of the college and a respected scholar, educationalist and nationalist.

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