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    Accra Academy

    Male second cycle institution in Kaneshie, Ghana

    Accra Academy is a boys' high school located at Bubuashie near Kaneshie in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. It admits both boarding and day students. Founded as a private school in 1931, it gained the status of a Government-Assisted School in 1950. It is the oldest existing high school to have been founded in the Gold Coast without prior involvement of a religious society, the government or a chiefdom.[9][10][11][12]

    The academy runs courses in business, general science, general arts, agricultural science and visual arts, leading to the award of a West African Senior School Certificate.[6][13][10][14][15][16][excessive citations]

    The academy's founders provided tuition to students who wanted a secondary-grade education but who did not have financial support to enable them do so.[8][17] The first principal and co-founder, Kofi Konuah periodically travelled to some of the major towns in each region of the country to organize entrance examinations for students, so as to offer the brilliant but needy among them the opportunity of education in the Accra Academy.[18] The ac

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    List of alumni of the Accra Academy

    An alumnus of the Accra Academy is referred to as a Bleoobi.

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    Natural and Applied Sciences

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    • David AcquayeFGA (Bleoo '48), soil scientist, former dean of faculty of agriculture at University of Ghana
    • James Adjaye (Bleoo ‘78), genetic scientist, research scientist at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
    • T. Q. Armar (Bleoo '36), Ghanaian educationist and publisher
    • Richmond AryeeteyFGA (Bleoo '93), nutritionist
    • Edwin AsomaningFGA (Bleoo '50), plant pathologist; former director of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana
    • Michael McClelland (Bleoo '72), Professor of Microbiology and Genetics at the University of California, Irvine
    • Richard Damoah (Bleoo '96), physicist and research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    • George OdamttenFGA (Bleoo '67), mycologist, former dean of faculty of science at University of Ghana
    • J. K. Okine (Bleoo ‘45), mathematician, headmaster of Accra Academy (1967-1986)
    • Richard Orraca-Tetteh (Bleoo '51), nutritionist
    • Frank Gibbs TortoFGA (Bleoo '36) (foundation student), chemist, first Ghanaian lecturer of the University of Ghana[1][2] foundation member and later president of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences
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