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Aggrey Burke At New Beacon Books, 2006
Aggrey is both a surname and a given name. The term means powerful and complete. Notable people with the name include: Surname * James Aggrey (1875–1927), Ghanaian missionary and teacher * Jimmy Aggrey (born 1978), English professional football player * Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926–2016), U.S. diplomat Given name * Aggrey Awori (1939–2021), Kenyan politician * Aggrey Bagiire, Ugandan politician * Aggrey Burke (born 1943), British psychiatrist and academic, born in Jamaica * Aggrey Chiyangi (born 1964), Zambian football player * Aggrey Jaden , South Sudanese politician * Aggrey Klaaste (1940–2004), South African journalist * Aggrey Morris (born 1984), Tanzanian footballer * Aggrey Mwanri (born 1955), Tanzanian politician See also *Aggrey beads, Ghanaian bead handicraft *Aggrey House, a hostel in London *Aggrey Road Aggrey Road is a major east-west arterial road located within the Old Township district in South Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is well known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Aggrey
James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey (18 October 1875 – 30 July 1927) was an intellectual, missionary, and teacher. He was born in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) and later emigrated to the United States, but returned to Africa for several years. He was the first Vice Principal of Achimota College. Biography Aggrey was born in Anomabu, the son of Princess Abena Anowa of Ajumako and Okyeame Prince Kodwo Kwegyir, the Chief Linguist in the court of the master chieftain King Amonoo IV of Anomabu. In June 1883, he was baptized in a municipality in the Gold Coast and accepted his Christian first name James. His full name was given as James Emman Kodwo Mensa Otsiwadu Humamfunsam Kwegyir Aggrey. He attended Wesleyan High School (now Mfantsipim School) Cape Coast, where the teachers noted that he was precocious, already studying Greek and Latin, and he subsequently rose to become the school's headmaster. In 1898, at the age of 23, Aggrey was selected due to his education to be trained in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Aggrey
James Emmanuel Aggrey (born 26 October 1978) is an English former professional footballer. He was born in Hammersmith, London. Aggrey began his football career as a trainee at Chelsea On 2 July 1997 he left Chelsea to join Fulham on a free transfer as one of Micky Adams' final signings before the arrival of Kevin Keegan and Ray Wilkins. He was released in the summer of 1998 still to make his league debut. On 30 June 1998 he briefly joined Airdrie, followed by a trial at Shrewsbury Town. On 29 October 1998 he joined Torquay United, initially on a one-month contract to cover for a central defensive injury crisis. He made his debut for Torquay in the 1–1 draw with Scarborough two days later and within that initial month played well enough to earn a permanent contract, though struggled to fully establish himself with Wayne Thomas, Lee Russell and Alex Watson all ahead of him. In 2000–01, after the sale of Thomas to Stoke City, he was a first-team regular, albeit suspended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orison Rudolph Aggrey
Orison Rudolph Aggrey (July 24, 1926 – April 6, 2016) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia, and Romania. Aggrey was born in 1926 in Salisbury, North Carolina as the youngest of four children to Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, an immigrant from the Gold Coast and later the co-Founder of Achimota School, and Rosebud Aggrey (). He died in April 2016 at the age of 89. He graduated in 1946 from Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) and received his master's degree from Syracuse University in 1948. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated Aggrey to be Ambassador Extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the U.S. to Romania. In Bucharest, he met Nobel Prize winning author Saul Bellow in December 1978 who asked for assistance in dealing with Romanian red-tape his Romanian-born wife, Alexandra Bellow, was experiencing while visiting her very ill mother in a Romanian hospital. Bellow portrayed Aggrey in chapter four of his novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aggrey Awori
Aggrey Siryoyi Awori (23 February 1939 – 5 July 2021) was a Ugandan economist, politician and Olympic hurdler, who served as Minister for Information and Communications Technology in the Cabinet of Uganda from 16 February 2009 to 27 May 2011. Prior to that, he represented Samia-Bugwe North, Busia District in the Ugandan Parliament from 2001 until 2006. Awori was an outspoken opposition member of parliament for the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) political party. In 2007, he abandoned the UPC and joined the ruling National Resistance Movement. Background Awori was born on 23 February 1939, in Budimo Village, Busia District, near the Ugandan/Kenyan border as the tenth of seventeen children. His parents were Canon Jeremiah Musungu Awori, a pioneer African priest of the Anglican Church in East Africa and Mrs. Mariamu Odongo Awori, a nurse and community teacher. Aggrey's siblings include the ninth Kenyan vice-president Arthur Moody Awori and Mary Okelo, the first woman in East Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aggrey Bagiire
Aggrey Henry Bagiire is a Ugandan politician. He is the State Minister for Transport in the Ugandan Cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016. Also served as the elected member of parliament representing Bunya County West, Mayuge District, in the 10th Ugandan Parliament (2016–2021). See also *Cabinet of Uganda * Parliament of Uganda The parliament of Uganda is the country's legislative body. Unicameral, the most significant of the Ugandan parliament's functions is to pass laws that will provide good governance in the country. The government ministers are bound to answer t ... References Living people Mayuge District Members of the Parliament of Uganda Government ministers of Uganda Politicians from Eastern Region, Uganda Year of birth missing (living people) National Resistance Movement politicians 21st-century Ugandan politicians {{Uganda-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aggrey Burke
Aggrey Washington Burke (FRCPsych, born 1943) is a British retired psychiatrist and academic, born in Jamaica, who spent the majority of his medical career at St George's Hospital in London, UK, specialising in transcultural psychiatry and writing literature on changing attitudes towards black people and mental health. He has carried out extensive research on racism and mental illness and is the first black consultant psychiatrist appointed by Britain's National Health Service (NHS). During his early career, Burke conducted studies on the mental health of repatriates at Bellevue Hospital, Jamaica, and concluded that repatriation caused significant psychological harm. While in Jamaica, he authored the earliest epidemiological report on schizophrenia in the Caribbean. In 1976, having returned to the UK, Burke published works on attempted suicide in immigrant Irish, West Indian and Asian people in Birmingham. In the early 1980s he carried out psychotherapeutic work with bereaved fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aggrey Chiyangi
Aggrey Chiyangi (born 5 June 1964) is a Zambian former football player and current manager of Green Eagles. Club career Born in Kitwe, Chiyangi attended Kitwe Boys Secondary School, playing for the school team. Upon leaving school, Chiyangi signed for Power Dynamos, playing for the club between 1984 and 1997. International career Chiyangi made his debut for Zambia on 23 May 1993, in a 1–0 loss against Malawi. On 11 July 1993, Chiyangi scored his first, and only, goal for Zambia in a 3–0 win against South Africa. In total, Chiyangi made 28 appearances for Zambia, scoring once. International goals :''Scores and results list Zambia's goal tally first.'' Managerial career Following his playing career, Chiyangi moved into management, managing Green Buffaloes, Power Dynamos, Chambishi as well as Botswana Premier League club Lobtrans Gunners. In March 2014, Chiyangi was appointed manager of Zanaco. In 2015, Chiyangi joined Nkana Nkana is a section of the city of Kitwe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aggrey Jaden
Aggrey Jaden Ladu (1924, 1927, or 1928 — 1985 or 1987) was a South Sudanese politician. Biography Aggrey Jaden Ladu is from the Pojulu ethnic group, known for promoting the independence of South Sudan from Sudan. He was born in Loka village in the mid to late 1920s and Education Aggrey Jaden Ladu attended Loka Church Missionary Society CMS Elementary school in the period 1936–1944, before proceeding to Nabumali secondary school in Uganda, where he studied from 1945 to 1949.He joined University of Khartoum in 1950 and graduated in the school of Arts in 1954 and joined Sudan administration and was trained as a sub – mamur administrator in 1955. Upon the independence of Sudan in 1956, he was accused of refusing to lower the British flag and replacing it with the new Sudan independence flag. He was transferred to Malakal in 1957 but got dismissed from the Sudan civil service in 1958 after the coup d'état of General Ibrahim Abboud. He left the country in search of a job and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aggrey Klaaste
Aggrey Zola Klaaste (6 January 1940 – 19 June 2004) was a South African newspaper journalist and editor. He was best known for being editor of the Soweto-based newspaper, the '' Sowetan'', from 1988 to 2002. He introduced the concept of "nation building" while editor of the Sowetan and spent much of his time and energy promoting the idea. Early life Klaaste was born in Kimberley as one of eight children, in a township called Green Point in the Northern Cape.Rhodes University. "The Relentless Community-Builder". Mbonambi, P - pg 5. Accessed: 1 October 2018 His father Tobias Klaaste was born in 1886 and died in 1973. His mother Regina Mantoa was born in 1900 and died in 1986. When he was three, his family moved to |
Aggrey Morris
Aggrey Morris Ambros (born 12 March 1984) is a Tanzanian footballer from Zanzibar who plays for Azam in the Tanzanian Premier League and is member of the Tanzania national football team. Career Morris started his career of the Island of Zanzibar with Mafunzo F.C., before joined in 2009 to Azzam United. In March 2012 was named as player of the year in the season 2011/2012. International Aggrey is a member of Tanzania national football team. He presented also fifteen times the Zanzibar national football team The Zanzibar national football team represents Zanzibar in international football and is controlled by the Zanzibar Football Federation. History Zanzibar is not a member of FIFA and is therefore not eligible to enter the World Cup. The islan .... International goals for Zanzibar :''Scores and results list Zanzibar's goal tally first.'' International goals for Tanzania :''Scores and results list Tanzania's goal tally first.'' References 1984 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aggrey Mwanri
Aggrey Deaisile Joshua Mwanri (born 17 July 1955) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and was member of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ... for Siha constituency since 2000. He is now serving as the regional commissioner and head of security council for Tabora region. He was the Deputy Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office for Regional Administration and Local Government. References 1955 births Living people Chama Cha Mapinduzi MPs Tanzanian MPs 2000–2005 Tanzanian MPs 2005–2010 Tanzanian MPs 2010–2015 Deputy government ministers of Tanzania Old Moshi Secondary School alumni University of Dar es Salaam alumni Academic staff of Kivukoni College {{Tanzania-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aggrey Beads
Aggry beads (also spelled aggri beads or aggrey beads) are a type of decorated glass bead from Ghana, used by West Africans as ornaments in necklaces, bracelets and other jewelry. Aggry beads are also called Koli, Cori, Kor, Segi, Accori, or Ekeur. They are often used for medicinal purposes, as it is believed that they have magical powers. Beads were used for exchange and as a means of payment during trade in Africa. Europeans first collected aggry beads from the West Coast of Africa in the fifteenth century. Their origin is obscure. Depending on different sources, beads labelled such may be made from glass, coral, or stone, and were typically blue. It is possible that the original Aggry beads came from the Phoenicians, who used it as a means of trading along the coasts of Europa, Asia and Africa. Sometimes millefiori Millefiori () is a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware. The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
