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Adawso
Adawso is a farming community in the Akuapem North Municipal District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It is located along the Koforidua-Mamfe highway. Infrastructure * Adawso Bridge over Afram River * Adawso Chief Palace * Adawso Fire Service Station Notable residents * Nathan Quao * Charles Odamtten Easmon * Nicholas Timothy Clerk * Jane Elizabeth Clerk * Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah * Matilda Johanna Clerk * Ernest Papa Arko * Nicholas Timothy Clerk * Carl Henry Clerk * Peter Hall (minister) * Charles Sterling Acolatse Charles Acolatse Sterling was a Ghanaian lawyer and jurist. He was a barrister-at-law and later justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. Early life and education Charles was born on 27 June 1899 to Chief Joachim Acolatse of Keta in British Togola ... References {{Reflist Eastern Region (Ghana) Communities in Ghana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Timothy Clerk
Nicholas Timothy Clerk (28 October 1862 – 16 August 1961) was a Protestant theologian, clergyman and pioneering missionary of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society in southeast colonial Ghana. His father was the Jamaican Moravian missionary Alexander Worthy Clerk (1820 – 1906), who worked extensively on the Gold Coast with the Basel Mission and co-founded in 1843 the Salem School'','' a Presbyterian boarding middle school for boys. Born on the Gold Coast, N. T. Clerk was elected the first Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast, in effect, the chief ecclesiastical officer, equivalent to the chief administrator and overall strategy lead of the national church organisation, a position he held from 1918 to 1932. A staunch advocate of secondary education, Nicholas Timothy Clerk became a founding father of the all-boys Presbyterian boarding school in Ghana, the Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School, established in 1938. As Synod Clerk, he pushed vigorously f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Odamtten Easmon
Charles Odamtten Easmon or C. O. Easmon, popularly known as Charlie Easmon, (22 September 1913 – 19 May 1994) was a medical doctor and academic who became the first Ghanaian to formally qualify as a surgeon specialist and the first Dean of the University of Ghana Medical School. Easmon performed the first successful open-heart surgery in Ghana in 1964, and modern scholars credit him as the "Father of Cardiac Surgery in West Africa". Easmon was of Sierra Leone Creole, Ga-Dangme, African-American, Danish, and Irish ancestry and a member of the distinguished Easmon family, a Sierra Leone Creole medical dynasty of African-American descent. Family and background Charles "Charlie" Odamtten Easmon was born on 22 September 1913, in Adawso on the Gold Coast, to Kate Salome Odamtten (1893–1940) and John Farrell Easmon (c. 1881–1920). Charles Odamtten Easmon was the first child of his mother and his younger siblings were Jonas Nii Lamptey, Laura Quartey, ''née'' Lamptey, and Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Quao
Nathan Anang Quao, (21 November 1915 – 15 February 2005) was a Ghanaian civil servant, educationist and diplomat who became a senior presidential advisor to the administrations of multiple Heads of State of Ghana. His last roles in government were as a Secretary at the PNDC Secretariat from 1984 to 1993 and a Special Assistant to President Jerry Rawlings from 1993 to 2001. Early life and education Quao was born at Adawso in the Eastern Region on 21 November 1915 where his father Daniel James Quao of La was based as a general commodities merchant. His mother was Dinah Naa Densua Addy of Ga-Mashie. His maternal grandfather, Nii Ngleshie Addy I was of royal lineage and the oldest son of Nii Tetteh Tsuru I, the founder and ruler of the Otuopai Clan in Ga Mashie. He was a member of the Ga people of Accra. After his elementary education at Presbyterian schools and secondary education at the Accra Academy, he studied for his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah
Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah (18 March 1920 – 1 June 1990) was a Ghanaian academic who taught classics at the University of Ghana and was subsequently Director of the ''Encyclopedia Africana''. Background Ofosu-Appiah was born in a village called Kukua near Adawso in the Eastern Region of Ghana. His parents were Seth Fianko — a teacher and a descendant of the royal family of Kubease, Larteh, Ghana — and Agnes Fianko (née Reynolds) — also a teacher and a descendant of the royal family of Akropong, Akwapim, Ghana. His education started at Adawso Presbyterian Primary School. In January 1932, he joined Achimota Secondary School for his secondary education. In 1939, he began his career as a Latin and Twi teacher at Achimota School. In January 1942, he joined the Junior Staff Department. He was appointed to work as an Assistant Librarian. He went on to work as an Assistant Museum Curator. In March 1944, the Achimota Council awarded him a scholarship to Oxford University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hall (minister)
Peter Hall (17 May 1851 – 1937) was a Gold Coast-born Jamaican teacher, missionary and Presbyterian clergyman who was elected the first Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast, equivalent to the rank of chairperson of the synod or chief executive of the national church organisation, a position he held from 1918 to 1922. Hall was the son of John Hall, one of 24 West Indian missionaries who arrived in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg and worked under the auspices of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society. Childhood and family Peter Hall was born at Akropong-Akwapim on the Gold Coast on 17 May 1851, the tenth child of eleven children of his parents. His parents, John and Mary Hall, had been born into slavery in Jamaica. The older Halls came to the Gold Coast in 1843 as part of a group of 24 Caribbean Moravian missionaries recruited by the Danish minister, Andreas Riis and the Basel Mission in 1843, to aid the work of the society in evangelism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
