NUGS, officially The National Union of Ghana Students is the largest
student organization
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in
Ghana
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. However the date of it foundation has been the subject of controversy. The official Facebook page suggests 1964.
However Professor
Anselmus Kludze, father of
Ave Kludze
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Life
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, claimed that he was the National President of NUGS for the period 1962–1963. He stated he was preceded by P.D. Vanderpuije of the
University of Science and Technology (UST) and followed by Mr. F.Y.I. Fiagbe, also of the UST. He further claims that both he and Fiagbe, along with Antwi (the General Secretary at the time), Mr. Easmon and Mr. Kodwo Carr were all arrested and imprisoned without trial under the Preventive Detention Act.
The organisation can trace its origins to the Union of Gold Coast Students in
West Africa
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which was founded in the 1930s.
Originally the Union had as one of its aims an end to
British colonial rule
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and the achievement independence.
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 ...
References
1964 establishments in Ghana
Education in Ghana
Educational organizations based in Africa
Youth organisations based in Ghana
Student organizations established in 1964
Students' unions
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