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Half Assini Senior High School is a coeducational senior high school located at
Half Assini Half Assini, also known as Awiane, is a small town and is the capital of Jomoro Municipal District, a municipality in the Western Region (Ghana), Western Region of Ghana. It is the hometown of Kwame Nkrumah's father. Nkrumah, the first president o ...
in the Western Region of
Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
.


History

The school was one of the schools founded by the first
president of Ghana The president of the Republic of Ghana is the elected head of state and head of government of Ghana, as well as commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces. The current president of Ghana is Nana Akufo-Addo, who won the 2020 presidential elec ...
, Dr.
Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah (born 21 September 190927 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An in ...
. He founded the school with sixty students and four teachers. The school was among the few early established schools in the country (Modern Ghana) and it attracted the best of brains across the continent. Most of the infrastructure in the school now was originally put up by Nkrumah, and sincerely it had one of the best science resource centers in the country at the time.


Student body

The school has about 1,600students.


See also

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Education in Ghana Before the arrival of European settlers, who introduced a formal education system addressed to the elites, education in Ghana was mainly informal and based on apprenticeship. Economic activities in pre-colonial Ghana were based on farm produce ...
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List of senior high schools in Ghana This is a list of category b Senior High Schools in Ghana by region. Ashanti Region There are more than 180 Senior High Schools in the region. Bono, Bono East & Ahafo Regions Central Region Eastern Region Greater Accra Region ...
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PeaceJam Ghana PeaceJam Ghana is an annual Youth Leadership Conference that is built around the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates who work with young people with the aim of imparting their skills, knowledge and wisdom to them for community and sustainable development ...


References

1960 establishments in Ghana Educational institutions established in 1960 High schools in Ghana Public schools in Ghana Education in the Western Region (Ghana) {{Ghana-school-stub