List of alumni of the Accra Academy

This is a list of NOTABLE ALUMNI OF ACCRA ACADEMY.
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An alumnus of the Accra Academy is referred to as an Accra Aca Old Boy. Article 4 of the constitution of the Accra Academy Old Boys' Association sets the parameters for joining the association as follows:

1. Membership of the association shall in general be open to all past students of the Accra Academy since its foundation on 20th July, 1931.
2. A past student of the Accra Academy qualifies for admission into the membership of the association if he has attended the school for at least one year.[1]

Mrs. Beatrice Abla Lokko, the first Headmistress of the academy, was not enrolled at the school but was nevertheless a paid up member of the association. Charles McArther Emmanuel aka Chuckie Taylor, son to former Liberian President Charles Taylor, was enrolled at the academy but later dismissed by administrators on grounds of possessing drugs and weapons.[2]

Alumni

Academia

Activism

  • Adjoa Acquaah-Harrison – founder and board chairwoman of WingSpan International USA[13]
  • Alexander Banful (Bleoo '72) – CEO of the Ghana Social Marketing Foundation[14]

Athletics and sports

Banking

Business

  • Nana Awuah Darko Ampem (Bleoo'51) - Established the first indigenous Ghanaian insurance company Marine and General Insurance Brokers. Founder of Vanguard Assurance. Former Nkosuohene of Asante Juaben. First Ghanaian Captain of the Accra Polo Club.[22][23]
  • Solomon Lartey – Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Activa International Insurance[24]
  • Felix Addo (Bleoo '73) – Country Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers(PwC) Ghana[25]President of Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors (GARIA)
  • Nathan Kwabena Adisi (aka Bola Ray) (Bleoo '96) – CEO of EIB Network and Empire Entertainment [26]
  • Ignace Hego Kwame (Bleoo '95) – CEO of 4syte TV.
  • Ernest Amartey-Vondee (Bleoo '78) – President of the Actuarial Society of Ghana (ASG) and CEO of the Ghana Healthcare Company[27]
  • Charles Cofie – Chairman of Barclays Ghana;former C.E.O of Unilever Ghana,MD of Unilever Malawi [28]
  • Charles Darku (Bleoo'75) - Managing Director of Tullow Oil Ghana
  • Constance Swaniker – creative arts designer[29]
  • Wilson Tei (Bleoo '68) – MD of Provident Life Assurance Company Ltd; former President of Ghana Insurers Association[30]
  • Dr. John Kobina Richardson - Chairman and Managing Director of Pioneer Tobacco; President of Association of Ghana Industries (1987 -1993)

Chieftaincy

  • Nana Akuoko Sarpong- Agogohene
  • Nana Wereko Ampem II (Bleoo '50) – former Gyaasehene of Akuapem Traditional Area; former Omanhene of Amanokrom;former Commissioner of Economic Affairs,former Chairman of the United Nations Investment Committee, first non-Head of State Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon; former government statistician[31][32][33][34]
  • Osagyefuo Kuntunkununku II (Bleoo '62) – 34th Okyenhene and Paramount Chief of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area:1976/1999, President of the Ghana National House of Chiefs, Member of the Council of State.[35]
  • Neenyi Ghartey VII - Omanhene of Winneba, Effutu traditional area.[36]
  • Nana Ansah Kwao IV - Chief of Akwamu Adumasa (Bleoo '92).[37]
  • Nii Teiko Ansah III (Bleoo'97) -Asere Mantse
  • Nii Kotey Amon III (Bleoo '71) – Asere Djaasetse; Ghana’s former ambassador to Morocco, Head of Mission in Brussels, and envoy to Germany[38]
  • Nana Nkuah Okomdom II (Samuel Appiah) – Paramount Chief of the Sefwi Wiawso Traditional Area in the Western Region from 1997 to 2011; former lecturer at Lund University; former CEO of Liberty FM at Sefwi Wiawso; former head of the Scandia Cab and Timber Company Limited[39]
  • Nana Ofosu Peko III (Daniel A. Wubah, Beloo 77), Safohene of Breman Asikuma [40]

Entertainment

  • Reginald Kojo Ainooson (aka Reggie Zippy) – musician[41]
  • John William Hansen (Bleoo '47) – musician, founder of the Ramblers International Band[42]
  • Nat Larbi (aka Borax) – musician[43]
  • Emmanuel Mallet (aka Zapp Mallet) – sound engineer[44]
  • Daniel Tetteh Nettey (aka Danny Nettey) – musician[45]
  • Augustine Osei-Wusu (aka C-Zar) – musician[41]
  • Elvin Jamil (aka Rudeboy) (Bleoo '08) – musician[46]
  • Dennis Nana Dwamena (aka KiDi) (Bleoo '12) – musician.[47]

Film,Theatre and Television

Law

[80][81]

  • Nana Kwame Akuoko Sarpong (Bleoo '57) – Omanhene of the Agogo Traditional Area[82]
  • Edward Kwame Wiredu – 10th Chief Justice of Ghana[83]

Media

  • Joachim Awuley Lartey a.k.a Joe Lartey Snr.- Former Head of GBC Sports and Broadcaster at Nigerian Broadcasting Cooperation
  • Kofi Kum Bilson – chartered accountant; radio presenter[84]
  • Emmanuel Benjamin Ephson (aka Ben Ephson) – Journalist, Publisher and Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch.[85]
  • Israel Laryea – Broadcast Journalist, News Editor and anchor, Programme host (TV3, Multimedia Broadcasting Limited).[86]
  • Akwasi Sarpong(Bleoo 95)-Journalist at British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Prince Joe Lartey a.k.a Joe Lartey Jnr.-Head of Sports Broadcasting at TV Africa

Medicine

  • Emmanuel Quaye Archampong,M.B,B.S, FRCSEd,FRCSEng,FICS,FWACS,FGCPS, FGA, FACS(Bleoo '51) –Emeritus Professor and former Dean of the University of Ghana Medical School[87]
  • Hutton Ayikwei Addy (Bleoo '51)[88]
  • Robert Yartey Mensa Annan – physician[89]
  • William Godson Bruce-Konuah (Bleoo '51)– physician[88]
  • Bernard Tei Dornoo (Bleoo '84) – Board Chair of the African Palliative Care Association[25]
  • Cornelius Odarquaye Quarcoopome (Bleoo '43) – first Ghanaian eye specialist[90]
  • J.F.O. Mustapha (Bleoo '50)– first neurosurgeon in Sub-Saharan Africa.[91][92][93]

Military

Ministers of State and diplomats

Police

  • John Willie Kofi Harlley – First Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the Ghana Police Service, Vice Chairman of the National Liberation Council[107] , former Minister for the Interior and former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Public Service

Religion

  • Francis William Banahene Thompson (Bleoo '49)- Anglican Bishop Emeritus of Accra.[112]
  • Rev. Victor Okoe Abbey - Presbyterian Minister and last chairperson of the Ga Presbytery,Acting Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) .[113]
  • Rev. Andy Yawson - Head Pastor of KICC, Ghana.
  • Pastor Josh Laryea.

Writers

  • Amu Djoleto – author of The Strange Man (1967), Money Galore (1975), and Hurricane of Dust (1987), among many other novels, short stories, and poems[114]
  • Ellis Ayitey Komey[115][116]
  • CNN Lokko – author of Honeymoon, Homecoming, Adventures of Elizabeth Sam, and Trinity High among other children's, young adult, and adult books.[117]
  • Kwei Quartey – medical doctor and writer, Pasadena, California[118]

Others

  • Joseph Bennet Odunton (Bleoo '39) - First black African to hold an appointment at the Buckingham Palace; Assistant Press Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1959-1960)[119][120][121]
  • Samuel Anang Ababio – CEO of the National Pension Regulatory Authority and National Secretary of the Pensioners Association of Ghana[122]
  • Reginald Nii Bi Ayibonte (Bleoo '82) – former member of Parliament for the Odododiodo Constituency[123]
  • Ebenezer Quashie Blavo (Bleoo '44) – former Youth Policy Advisor to the Government of Jamaica[123]
  • Alhaji M. Billy Brimah – member of the Council of Muslim Chiefs.[124]
  • Habteselassie Ebenezer Nii Amu First-Quao – at age 28, seven years after 1972 graduation,became first black African English translator at the UN, working from hexagonal French and Castilian Spanish to English.
  • Jerry Agiri Williams – martial artist and former karate champion for Arizona State (US)[125]

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