Son of Kodwo Kwegyir Aggrey & Abna Andua, he was born in Anamabu, Ghana, West Africa.
Married Rosebud "Rose" Douglass on November 8, 1905
Father of:
Abna Azalea (Aggrey) Lancaster(1907-1997)
Kwegyir Aggrey (1908-1986)
Rosebud Douglass Aggrey (1910-1990)
Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926- )
Professor at Livingstone College & Hood Theological Seminary, A.M.E. Zion Minister. Representative for the Phelps Stokes Foundation in Africa. Co-founder of Achimota College.
Educated at Livingstone College, he taught there for twenty years before entering Columbia for graduate study. In 1920 and 1924, he traveled on educational missions to Africa with the Phelps-Stokes Fund; at the conclusion of the second tour he was appointed Vice Principal of the Prince of Wales College at Achimota.
James E. K. Aggrey died July 30, 1927 in New York City, and was buried in the Oakdale Circle section of Oakdale/Union Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, NC.
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Achimota College, formerly Prince of Wales College and School, Achimota, now nicknamed Motown, was founded in Achimota, Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1924 by Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser, and Sir Gordon Guggisberg, the British Governor of the Gold Coast (1919-1927), as an elite secondary school based on the British model of public education. Governor Guggisberg urged local Gold Coast residents to create the institution to provide teacher training, technical training, and secondary schooling for the colony.
Born and raised in the Gold Coast Colony, Dr. Aggrey served as a teacher and secretary of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society before going on to the United States where he earned a B.A. at Livingstone College, a small African American institution in North Carolina, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Desiring the involvement of Dr. Aggrey in founding Achimota, Governor Guggisberg acceded to all three terms set forth by Dr. Aggrey: African members of staff occupy an equal position to Europeans; appointments would be the discretion of the principal, rather than the colonial government; and the school would teach children as young as six. Even though Guggisberg's Committee recommended that girls not be admitted, Dr. Aggrey and Rev. A. G. Fraser stipulated that Achimota must be coeducational.
Achimota College hired staff before there were buildings, so that teachers could study the local languages, establish local interest, and gain experience teaching in Gold Coast schools. On January 28, 1927, Achimota was formally opened with 120 students. The College was government-funded and in a unique break from missionary education tradition, it was interdenominational, with students and staff practicing their own denomination of Christianity. Additionally attending religious services was optional.
In 1948 Achimota College became three separate institutions, the University College of the Gold Coast (now the University of Ghana), the Achimota Teacher Training College, and Achimota School. Achimota College still operates today as Achimota School under the oversight of the Ghana Education Service, providing a senior high school education to young women and men.
Married Rosebud "Rose" Douglass on November 8, 1905
Father of:
Abna Azalea (Aggrey) Lancaster(1907-1997)
Kwegyir Aggrey (1908-1986)
Rosebud Douglass Aggrey (1910-1990)
Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926- )
Professor at Livingstone College & Hood Theological Seminary, A.M.E. Zion Minister. Representative for the Phelps Stokes Foundation in Africa. Co-founder of Achimota College.
Educated at Livingstone College, he taught there for twenty years before entering Columbia for graduate study. In 1920 and 1924, he traveled on educational missions to Africa with the Phelps-Stokes Fund; at the conclusion of the second tour he was appointed Vice Principal of the Prince of Wales College at Achimota.
James E. K. Aggrey died July 30, 1927 in New York City, and was buried in the Oakdale Circle section of Oakdale/Union Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, NC.
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Achimota College, formerly Prince of Wales College and School, Achimota, now nicknamed Motown, was founded in Achimota, Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1924 by Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser, and Sir Gordon Guggisberg, the British Governor of the Gold Coast (1919-1927), as an elite secondary school based on the British model of public education. Governor Guggisberg urged local Gold Coast residents to create the institution to provide teacher training, technical training, and secondary schooling for the colony.
Born and raised in the Gold Coast Colony, Dr. Aggrey served as a teacher and secretary of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society before going on to the United States where he earned a B.A. at Livingstone College, a small African American institution in North Carolina, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Desiring the involvement of Dr. Aggrey in founding Achimota, Governor Guggisberg acceded to all three terms set forth by Dr. Aggrey: African members of staff occupy an equal position to Europeans; appointments would be the discretion of the principal, rather than the colonial government; and the school would teach children as young as six. Even though Guggisberg's Committee recommended that girls not be admitted, Dr. Aggrey and Rev. A. G. Fraser stipulated that Achimota must be coeducational.
Achimota College hired staff before there were buildings, so that teachers could study the local languages, establish local interest, and gain experience teaching in Gold Coast schools. On January 28, 1927, Achimota was formally opened with 120 students. The College was government-funded and in a unique break from missionary education tradition, it was interdenominational, with students and staff practicing their own denomination of Christianity. Additionally attending religious services was optional.
In 1948 Achimota College became three separate institutions, the University College of the Gold Coast (now the University of Ghana), the Achimota Teacher Training College, and Achimota School. Achimota College still operates today as Achimota School under the oversight of the Ghana Education Service, providing a senior high school education to young women and men.
Son of Kodwo Kwegyir Aggrey & Abna Andua, he was born in Anamabu, Ghana, West Africa.
Married Rosebud "Rose" Douglass on November 8, 1905
Father of:
Abna Azalea (Aggrey) Lancaster(1907-1997)
Kwegyir Aggrey (1908-1986)
Rosebud Douglass Aggrey (1910-1990)
Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926- )
Professor at Livingstone College & Hood Theological Seminary, A.M.E. Zion Minister. Representative for the Phelps Stokes Foundation in Africa. Co-founder of Achimota College.
Educated at Livingstone College, he taught there for twenty years before entering Columbia for graduate study. In 1920 and 1924, he traveled on educational missions to Africa with the Phelps-Stokes Fund; at the conclusion of the second tour he was appointed Vice Principal of the Prince of Wales College at Achimota.
James E. K. Aggrey died July 30, 1927 in New York City, and was buried in the Oakdale Circle section of Oakdale/Union Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, NC.
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Achimota College, formerly Prince of Wales College and School, Achimota, now nicknamed Motown, was founded in Achimota, Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1924 by Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser, and Sir Gordon Guggisberg, the British Governor of the Gold Coast (1919-1927), as an elite secondary school based on the British model of public education. Governor Guggisberg urged local Gold Coast residents to create the institution to provide teacher training, technical training, and secondary schooling for the colony.
Born and raised in the Gold Coast Colony, Dr. Aggrey served as a teacher and secretary of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society before going on to the United States where he earned a B.A. at Livingstone College, a small African American institution in North Carolina, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Desiring the involvement of Dr. Aggrey in founding Achimota, Governor Guggisberg acceded to all three terms set forth by Dr. Aggrey: African members of staff occupy an equal position to Europeans; appointments would be the discretion of the principal, rather than the colonial government; and the school would teach children as young as six. Even though Guggisberg's Committee recommended that girls not be admitted, Dr. Aggrey and Rev. A. G. Fraser stipulated that Achimota must be coeducational.
Achimota College hired staff before there were buildings, so that teachers could study the local languages, establish local interest, and gain experience teaching in Gold Coast schools. On January 28, 1927, Achimota was formally opened with 120 students. The College was government-funded and in a unique break from missionary education tradition, it was interdenominational, with students and staff practicing their own denomination of Christianity. Additionally attending religious services was optional.
In 1948 Achimota College became three separate institutions, the University College of the Gold Coast (now the University of Ghana), the Achimota Teacher Training College, and Achimota School. Achimota College still operates today as Achimota School under the oversight of the Ghana Education Service, providing a senior high school education to young women and men.
Married Rosebud "Rose" Douglass on November 8, 1905
Father of:
Abna Azalea (Aggrey) Lancaster(1907-1997)
Kwegyir Aggrey (1908-1986)
Rosebud Douglass Aggrey (1910-1990)
Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926- )
Professor at Livingstone College & Hood Theological Seminary, A.M.E. Zion Minister. Representative for the Phelps Stokes Foundation in Africa. Co-founder of Achimota College.
Educated at Livingstone College, he taught there for twenty years before entering Columbia for graduate study. In 1920 and 1924, he traveled on educational missions to Africa with the Phelps-Stokes Fund; at the conclusion of the second tour he was appointed Vice Principal of the Prince of Wales College at Achimota.
James E. K. Aggrey died July 30, 1927 in New York City, and was buried in the Oakdale Circle section of Oakdale/Union Hill Cemetery in Salisbury, NC.
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Achimota College, formerly Prince of Wales College and School, Achimota, now nicknamed Motown, was founded in Achimota, Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1924 by Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser, and Sir Gordon Guggisberg, the British Governor of the Gold Coast (1919-1927), as an elite secondary school based on the British model of public education. Governor Guggisberg urged local Gold Coast residents to create the institution to provide teacher training, technical training, and secondary schooling for the colony.
Born and raised in the Gold Coast Colony, Dr. Aggrey served as a teacher and secretary of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society before going on to the United States where he earned a B.A. at Livingstone College, a small African American institution in North Carolina, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Desiring the involvement of Dr. Aggrey in founding Achimota, Governor Guggisberg acceded to all three terms set forth by Dr. Aggrey: African members of staff occupy an equal position to Europeans; appointments would be the discretion of the principal, rather than the colonial government; and the school would teach children as young as six. Even though Guggisberg's Committee recommended that girls not be admitted, Dr. Aggrey and Rev. A. G. Fraser stipulated that Achimota must be coeducational.
Achimota College hired staff before there were buildings, so that teachers could study the local languages, establish local interest, and gain experience teaching in Gold Coast schools. On January 28, 1927, Achimota was formally opened with 120 students. The College was government-funded and in a unique break from missionary education tradition, it was interdenominational, with students and staff practicing their own denomination of Christianity. Additionally attending religious services was optional.
In 1948 Achimota College became three separate institutions, the University College of the Gold Coast (now the University of Ghana), the Achimota Teacher Training College, and Achimota School. Achimota College still operates today as Achimota School under the oversight of the Ghana Education Service, providing a senior high school education to young women and men.
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James E. Kwegyir Aggrey
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