Ghana National College is a secondary school in Cape Coast

Cape Coast

Cape Coast, or Cabo Corso, is the capital of the Central Region of Ghana and is also the capital city of the Fante people, or Mfantsefo. It is situated 165 km west of Accra on the Gulf of Guinea. It has a population of 82,291 . From the 16th century the city has changed hands between the...

, on the coast of Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

. It is rated as one of the areas top schools.

Overview

It was founded on July 20, 1948, staffed by dismissed teachers from St Augustines College and Mfantsipim. The college was founded by the first Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana...

 using his own funds, for eight students who had been expelled by the British colonial administration from St. Augustine’s College. The expulsion resulted from a protest march, held in solidarity with Nkrumah who was then imprisoned.

Notable alumni

• Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyi Allotey
  Francis Allotey
  Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey is a Ghanaian physicist and mathematician. He is known for the "Allotey Formalism" which arose from his work on soft X-ray spectroscopy...
  
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• General Emmanuel Alexander Erskine, Ist UNIFIL Commander
• General Mensah-Wood, Deceased Former Chief of Defence Staff, Ghana Armed Forces.
• Nana Owusu-Nkwantabisa, Class of 1986.
• Gladys Asmah,Former minister of Fisheries
• Abieku Santana,OK FM