Fijai Senior High School, formerly Fijai Secondary School, is a

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senior high school located in the Western Region of

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. The name Fijai is from the native dialect "Afei Gyae Me", which literally means "Now, leave me alone".

History

The school got under way in 1952 as

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Day Secondary School, as part of the 1951 Accelerated Plan for Education of the then Gold Coast Government. The school was commissioned by the Paramount Chief of Essikado, Nana Kobina Nketsiah IV on 29 January 1952 with 38 students (30 boys and eight girls). School was conducted in the buildings of the old Sekondi hospital. The school moved to its current site in 1955 where it assumed its name Fijai Secondary School and recently changed to Fijai Senior High School.

Emblem

The school emblem is an "Aquilline" eagle flying towards the sky and stars, through great storms and lightning as the school motto indicates ''Ad Astra Per Aspera'', meaning "To the Stars Through Thick and Thin".

Anthem

We started young in earnest In search of knowledge pure and true And at our motherland behest To give of our country of our best And so we daily struggling through chorus adastra 3x, per adua to the stars 3x through thick and thin

Headmasters

Notable alumni

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, justice of the

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(20062019) *

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, lawyer and politician * General Emmanuel Alexander Erskine, soldier *

Joe Baidoo-Ansah Joe Baidoo-Ansah is a journalist, communications specialist, human rights advocate and activist, and a politician who served as a member of parliament in Ghana from 2001 to 2017. A Member of the New Patriotic party from the Western Region and ...

, politician * Paapa Owusu-Ankomah, politician * Nana Yaa Brefo, journalist, Angel FM 102.9 * Esther Efua Dampson, KNUST, Materials Engineering department

References

1952 establishments in Gold Coast (British colony) Educational institutions established in 1952 High schools in Ghana Sekondi-Takoradi Education in the Western Region (Ghana) {{Ghana-school-stub