Institution

Achimota School

1927 · 20th century · Also known as Prince of Wales College

Achimota School is a boarding school near Accra, Ghana, founded in the 1920s by Governor Gordon Guggisberg, the Reverend Alexander Fraser and James Kwegyir Aggrey and opened in 1927 as the Prince of Wales College. Co-educational from the start, it trained much of the Gold Coast's later elite, and its former pupils include Kwame Nkrumah and several later heads of state of Ghana.

Achimota School
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Achimota School. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/achimota-school
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The Epoch Institute. “Achimota School.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/achimota-school.
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