Mawuli School is a

co-educational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

, boarding senior high school located in Ho in the

Ho Municipal district Ho Municipal District is one of the eighteen districts in Volta Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly on 10 March 1989 when it was known as Ho District, until the southern part of the district was split off by a decre ...

in the

Volta Region Volta Region (or Volta) is one of Ghana's sixteen administrative regions, with Ho designated as its capital. It is located west of Republic of Togo and to the east of Lake Volta. Divided into 25 administrative districts, the region is multi-et ...

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History

The school was founded in 1950 by the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. It was the first senior high school to be established in the

Trans-Volta Togoland British Togoland, officially the Mandate Territory of Togoland and later officially the Trust Territory of Togoland, was a territory in West Africa, under the administration of the United Kingdom, which subsequently entered into union with Ghana ...

. The name Mawuli, which is a popular Ewe name in Volta Region means "There is a God". The name Mawuli and the motto Head Heart Hand, was given by students.

Programmes offered

* Business * General arts * General science * Home economics * Technical skills (Auto Mechanics and Electricals) *

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*Graphics *Ceramics *General Agriculture

Notable alumni

Selase Agbenyefia Selase Agbenyefia or Selase Yaaya Agbenyefia (born 1978) is an officer in the Ghana Air Force and she became the first Ghanaian female helicopter pilot. Life Agbenyefia was born in 1978 and 1989 she started at Mawuko Girls Secondary School. Two y ...

– Ghanaian helicopter pilot *

Nelson Agbesi Nelson Yawo Avega Agbesi (1939–2016) was a Ghanaian barrister and politician. Early life and education Nelson Agbesi was born on 16 November 1939 at Liati Wote in the then Trans-Volta Togoland and later Gold Coast but now in the Volta Region ...

– Volta Regional Minister (1979–1980), Minister for Agriculture (1980–1981) * Samuel Koku Anyidoho – Deputy General-Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (2014–2018) *

Akofa Edjeani Asiedu Akofa Edjeani (born 20 February 1969) is a Ghanaian veteran film actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre ...

– Ghanaian actress * Oscar Korbla Mawuli Awuku – Ghanaian body artist, painter, and sculptor *

Akua Sena Dansua Akua Sena Dansua (born 23 April 1958) is an experienced Ghanaian media and communications consultant, politician and governance and leadership practitioner. She was the Member of Parliament for North Dayi in Ghana and former Ambassador to German ...

– Ghanaian journalist and politician *

Leila Djansi Leila Afua Djansi (born 1981) is an American and Ghanaian filmmaker who started her film career in the Ghana film industry. Early life Leila Djansi was born Leila Afua Djansi in 1981.Nelmes, Jill; Selbo, Jule''Women Screenwriters: An Internati ...

– Ghanaian filmmaker *

Harry Dumashie Air Marshal Achilles Harry Kwami Dumashie (4 June 1938 - 20 December 2002), often known as Harry Dumashie, was a Ghanaian soldier. He served as Chief of Air Staff and as Ghanaian Chief of Defence Staff from 1992 to 1996. Early life and educat ...

- Chief of the Defence Staff, Chief of Air Staff and member of the

Provisional National Defence Council The Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) was the name of the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown by Jerry Rawlings, the former head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, in a coup ...

* Smile Dzisi – rector and interim vice-chancellor of the Koforidua Technical University * Ernest Gaewu – Justice of the

Supreme Court of Ghana The Supreme Court of Ghana is the highest judicial body in Ghana. Ghana's 1992 constitution guarantees the independence and separation of the Judiciary from the Legislative and the Executive arms of government.1992 Constitution Article 125( ...

* Bernice Heloo – MP Hohoe North and former deputy Minister for Environment Science, Technology and Innovations * Jerry Kuma – vice-chancellor of the University of Mines and Technology * Efo Kodjo Mawugbe –

Ghanaian 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 Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...

award-winning

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and former director of the

National Theatre of Ghana The National Theatre was opened in 1992 to spearhead the Theatre movement in Ghana by providing a multi-functional venue for concerts, dance, drama and musical performances, screenplays, exhibitions and special events. In Ghana, theatre as an art ...

Elizabeth Akua Ohene Elizabeth Akua Ohene (born 24 January 1945) is a Ghanaian journalist and a politician. She served as Minister of State for Tertiary Education in Ghana under President John Kufuor. She had previously served as the Editor of the ''Daily Graphic'', th ...

– Ghanaian journalist

Gallery of School

References

1950 establishments in Gold Coast (British colony) Boarding schools in Ghana Christian schools in Ghana Co-educational boarding schools Educational institutions established in 1950 High schools in Ghana Presbyterian schools in Africa Education in Volta Region *

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