Aggrey Of Africa Remembered

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Frank Appiah 11 years ago

Dr Aggrey's wisdom,his wise-sayings,his stand against racial inequality and gender inequality in education made him a unique African over hundred years ago.Dr Aggrey was a rare human being.

Dr Aggrey's wisdom,his wise-sayings,his stand against racial inequality and gender inequality in education made him a unique African over hundred years ago.Dr Aggrey was a rare human being.
Michael Adu 11 years ago

I congratulate Mfantseman Association of the Carolinas and all those who gave their support to the descendants of Dr Aggrey for this celebration.

I congratulate Mfantseman Association of the Carolinas and all those who gave their support to the descendants of Dr Aggrey for this celebration.
KWADWO 11 years ago

A GREAT AFRICAN INDEED,HIS NAME HAS BEEN IMMORTALIZED IN MAWULI SCHOOL WHERE I WAS A HOUSE CAPTAIN.WE ARE ALL VERY PROUD OF AGGREY OF AFRICA

A GREAT AFRICAN INDEED,HIS NAME HAS BEEN IMMORTALIZED IN MAWULI SCHOOL WHERE I WAS A HOUSE CAPTAIN.WE ARE ALL VERY PROUD OF AGGREY OF AFRICA
Hajia halimatu 11 years ago

Very proud of Dr Aggrey,great man,he is legend.I was in Aggrey house in the north as a student,and it seamed we were bless by the Dr bcos we had always almost beaten the other houses in most social activities especially sport ...
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Very proud of Dr Aggrey,great man,he is legend.I was in Aggrey house in the north as a student,and it seamed we were bless by the Dr bcos we had always almost beaten the other houses in most social activities especially sport.
NOBODY 11 years ago

Yes, he was all that you described. One of Aggrey's son's retired in the 1980s as United States Ambassador to one of the European countries. I do not remember if it is Denmark.

Yes, he was all that you described. One of Aggrey's son's retired in the 1980s as United States Ambassador to one of the European countries. I do not remember if it is Denmark.
Joe Mensah 11 years ago

Yes,Rudolph Aggrey,the diplomat was one of Dr Aggrey's children.He was United States ambassador to Senegal and Gambia,and later Rumania.He has retired and now lives in Virginia.

Yes,Rudolph Aggrey,the diplomat was one of Dr Aggrey's children.He was United States ambassador to Senegal and Gambia,and later Rumania.He has retired and now lives in Virginia.
MAME MANSA 11 years ago

A GREAT EDUCATED MAN OF AFRICA. IT IS A SHAME THAT OUR GREAT SON OF AFRICA, DR.AGGREY IS WITHOUT A PICTURE. WHOEVER PUT UP THE STORY SHOULD BE ASHAME OF HIMSELF FOR NOT SHOWING AT LEAST ONE OF HIS PICTURES HERE. A GREAT SO ...
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A GREAT EDUCATED MAN OF AFRICA. IT IS A SHAME THAT OUR GREAT SON OF AFRICA, DR.AGGREY IS WITHOUT A PICTURE. WHOEVER PUT UP THE STORY SHOULD BE ASHAME OF HIMSELF FOR NOT SHOWING AT LEAST ONE OF HIS PICTURES HERE. A GREAT SON OF AFRICA INDEED. WE LOVE YOU AS OUR GRANDPAPA. BE BLESSED , AFRICA , AND GHANA WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

YOU CAN GOGGLE HIS PICTURES.

YOU CAN GOGGLE HIS PICTURES.
GoodWill 11 years ago

Thank you Dr. Aggrey for your contribution.

Thank you Dr. Aggrey for your contribution.
PROF 11 years ago

HE MADE AFRICA PROUD. A TRULY GREAT MAN.

HE MADE AFRICA PROUD. A TRULY GREAT MAN.

GoodWill 11 years ago

Rich display of Fante Culture, wish I was there.

Rich display of Fante Culture, wish I was there.
SOJOURNER BRUISED 11 years ago

IT WANT MY RESPECT?

WHAT KIND OF FOOL SHALL CALL AN EVIL MONSTER AN AUTHORITY. PERSONS WHO WILL BRUISED PRECIOUS BRAINS OF UNARMED OR IMPLANT HORNS ON A HUMAN BEING. ABOABI. FOR SOCCER? NKWASEASEM IN TWI WATCH YOUR STUPI ...
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IT WANT MY RESPECT?

WHAT KIND OF FOOL SHALL CALL AN EVIL MONSTER AN AUTHORITY. PERSONS WHO WILL BRUISED PRECIOUS BRAINS OF UNARMED OR IMPLANT HORNS ON A HUMAN BEING. ABOABI. FOR SOCCER? NKWASEASEM IN TWI WATCH YOUR STUPID MOUTH COMMENTATOR!!!!! IF I AM CLOSER TO YOU, YOU FEEL AND KNOW WHAT I CAN DO TO YOU.

AUTHORITY THAT PROFESS CIVILIZED,LOVELY OR GODLY,YET PRACTICED INIQUITIES OF THE LIKES OF IDI AMIN,GADHAFI AND SADAM HUSSEIN. IT THINKS ALL MINDS AND HEARTS FOLLOW DECEPTIONS AND HYPOCRACIES OF TYRANT DEMOCRACIES.

A BORN AGAIN IS THE MOST SUPERIOR PERSONS ON EARTH ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF LIFE. SUPERIOR TO LEADERS OF GOVERNMENTS. THE SANTUARY OR THE CHURCH BUILDING IS THE EMBASSIES OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND PUTTING ANY FLAG IN THERE IS A BREACH OF RESPECT TO THAT KINGDOM. WE CANNOT PLACE RUSSIEN FLAG IN AMERICAN EMBASSY.
Ghanaman 11 years ago

Please note that a House has also been named in his honour at Prempeh College in Kumasi, as far as I can remember.

Please note that a House has also been named in his honour at Prempeh College in Kumasi, as far as I can remember.
COS90 11 years ago

Tarkwa Secondary School also named a complete house after Dr. Kwagyir Aggrey of which i was in aggrey house room 2, the last storey build. i was there from 1989-1991.

Tarkwa Secondary School also named a complete house after Dr. Kwagyir Aggrey of which i was in aggrey house room 2, the last storey build. i was there from 1989-1991.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

IF ALL THE TREES ARE ONE TREE,WHAT A GREAT TREE IT WILL BE.
IF ALL THE MEN ARE LIKE DR AGGREY WHAT A GREAT NATION WE WILL HAVE.
THE WISDOM OF MEN ARE NOT FOUND IN MUSEUMS OR IN GREAT UNIVERSITY'S OR MECCAS,
THEY ARE FOUND ...
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IF ALL THE TREES ARE ONE TREE,WHAT A GREAT TREE IT WILL BE.
IF ALL THE MEN ARE LIKE DR AGGREY WHAT A GREAT NATION WE WILL HAVE.
THE WISDOM OF MEN ARE NOT FOUND IN MUSEUMS OR IN GREAT UNIVERSITY'S OR MECCAS,
THEY ARE FOUND IN CEMETERYS,
MANY DIED WITHOUT ACHIEVING THEIR DREAMS.
DR AGGREY DIED OF A YOUNG AGE AND IF HE HAD LIVED LONGER,THINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT.
MAY HE REST IN PEACE.
mahall 11 years ago

He really inspired me when I was a kid in school after reading a text book about him.but Nkrumah was the best ever to me.

He really inspired me when I was a kid in school after reading a text book about him.but Nkrumah was the best ever to me.
ABLETSI 11 years ago

WAS HE BURIED IN THE US. IF IT IS SO THEN THIS IS AN AFFRONT TO GHANA AND AFRICANS. DR. AGGREY SHOULD BE RE-BURIED IN GHANA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

WAS HE BURIED IN THE US. IF IT IS SO THEN THIS IS AN AFFRONT TO GHANA AND AFRICANS. DR. AGGREY SHOULD BE RE-BURIED IN GHANA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
OSABERIMA 11 years ago

But Dr W.E Du Bois is also buried in Ghana.

But Dr W.E Du Bois is also buried in Ghana.
Just Asking 11 years ago

Thank you. Without Dr.Aggrey and people like him, I would not have received the education that I had. Thank you, Dr. Aggrey, Thank you Dr. Nkrumah!

Thank you. Without Dr.Aggrey and people like him, I would not have received the education that I had. Thank you, Dr. Aggrey, Thank you Dr. Nkrumah!
obaa 11 years ago

Yes, and he said it:
If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
Brilliant.

Yes, and he said it:
If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
Brilliant.

Tewia 11 years ago

Aggrey continued saying by using the Key notes of piano to symbolized a fine melody that both black and white keys of piano can produce a fine melody.

Aggrey continued saying by using the Key notes of piano to symbolized a fine melody that both black and white keys of piano can produce a fine melody.
PEKI TUMU 11 years ago

The Cemetary in which he is buried was exclusively for Blacks ie African Americans In times fo death there was also segregation during those times

The Cemetary in which he is buried was exclusively for Blacks ie African Americans In times fo death there was also segregation during those times
PEKI TUMU 11 years ago

He was not the only one.
Thousands of African-American Civil War veterans are buried in segregated
cemeteries that are often forgotten

See a Study;
Segregated cemeteries: A remnant of a not-so-distant past by Barbara ...
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He was not the only one.
Thousands of African-American Civil War veterans are buried in segregated
cemeteries that are often forgotten

See a Study;
Segregated cemeteries: A remnant of a not-so-distant past by Barbara Miller
makamakamakam 11 years ago

I thought he would havehad much to do with Britain than America.Dr. Aggrey and Mfanstipim? Achimota?

Well done Mfanstiman...!!!

I thought he would havehad much to do with Britain than America.Dr. Aggrey and Mfanstipim? Achimota?

Well done Mfanstiman...!!!
makamakamakam 11 years ago

Hey Annor Kumi, Baron,Foster,Kofi Baboni,Bentil Enchil, and all hi hi!!

tIS IS MEDICO and it sure has been.

Hey Annor Kumi, Baron,Foster,Kofi Baboni,Bentil Enchil, and all hi hi!!

tIS IS MEDICO and it sure has been.
Oheneba Asare 11 years ago

Even in the years of intense racial discrimination in America,the Whiteman listened to him,respected him and bowed to him for his words of wisdom.
On gender equalty in education,this is what Dr Aggrey said:
"If you educate ...
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Even in the years of intense racial discrimination in America,the Whiteman listened to him,respected him and bowed to him for his words of wisdom.
On gender equalty in education,this is what Dr Aggrey said:
"If you educate a man you educate an individual,but if you educate a woman you educate a nation".
On racial equality,he used the black and white keys of a piano to convey is message:You can play a tune of sorts on the white keys of a piano and you can play a tune of sorts on the black keys of a piano but for harmony,you must use both the black and white keys.
Oheneba Asare 11 years ago

Even in the years of intense racial discrimination in America,the Whiteman listened to him,respected him and bowed to him for his words of wisdom.
On gender equalty in education,this is what Dr Aggrey said:
"If you educate ...
read full comment

Even in the years of intense racial discrimination in America,the Whiteman listened to him,respected him and bowed to him for his words of wisdom.
On gender equalty in education,this is what Dr Aggrey said:
"If you educate a man you educate an individual,but if you educate a woman you educate a nation".
On racial equality,he used the black and white keys of a piano to convey is message:You can play a tune of sorts on the white keys of a piano and you can play a tune of sorts on the black keys of a piano but for harmony,you must use both the black and white keys.
Oheneba Asare 11 years ago

Even in the years of intense racial discrimination in America,the Whiteman listened to him,respected him and bowed to him for his words of wisdom.
On gender equalty in education,this is what Dr Aggrey said:
"If you educate ...
read full comment

Even in the years of intense racial discrimination in America,the Whiteman listened to him,respected him and bowed to him for his words of wisdom.
On gender equalty in education,this is what Dr Aggrey said:
"If you educate a man you educate an individual,but if you educate a woman you educate a nation".
On racial equality,he used the black and white keys of a piano to convey is message:You can play a tune of sorts on the white keys of a piano and you can play a tune of sorts on the black keys of a piano but for harmony,you must use both the black and white keys.
Oheneba Asare 11 years ago

Even in the years of intense racial discrimination in America,the Whiteman listened to him,respected him and bowed to him for his words of wisdom.
On gender equalty in education,this is what Dr Aggrey said:
"If you educate ...
read full comment

Even in the years of intense racial discrimination in America,the Whiteman listened to him,respected him and bowed to him for his words of wisdom.
On gender equalty in education,this is what Dr Aggrey said:
"If you educate a man you educate an individual,but if you educate a woman you educate a nation".
On racial equality,he used the black and white keys of a piano to convey is message:You can play a tune of sorts on the white keys of a piano and you can play a tune of sorts on the black keys of a piano but for harmony,you must use both the black and white keys.
Oheneba Asare 11 years ago

Even in the years of intense racial discrimination in America,the Whiteman listened to him,respected him and bowed to him for his words of wisdom.
On gender equalty in education,this is what Dr Aggrey said:
"If you educate ...
read full comment

Even in the years of intense racial discrimination in America,the Whiteman listened to him,respected him and bowed to him for his words of wisdom.
On gender equalty in education,this is what Dr Aggrey said:
"If you educate a man you educate an individual,but if you educate a woman you educate a nation".
On racial equality,he used the black and white keys of a piano to convey is message:You can play a tune of sorts on the white keys of a piano and you can play a tune of sorts on the black keys of a piano but for harmony,you must use both the black and white keys.

MenayeAFUAforiwa 11 years ago

NOT ONLY WHAT YOU HAVE ENUMERATED, FRAKIE, HE WAS A MAN OF CLEAN HANDS. THE KIND OF TRAIT OUR PRESENT LEADERS FROM JJ RAWLINGS DOWN TO MILLS,KUFOUR AND MAHAMA LACKED.

NOT ONLY WHAT YOU HAVE ENUMERATED, FRAKIE, HE WAS A MAN OF CLEAN HANDS. THE KIND OF TRAIT OUR PRESENT LEADERS FROM JJ RAWLINGS DOWN TO MILLS,KUFOUR AND MAHAMA LACKED.
KOFI ABROKWA - HOUSTON, TX. 11 years ago

Biography[edit]

He was born in Anomabo, the son of the Kodwo Kwegyir, a friend of the then master chieftain Amonu IV. In the June 1883, he was baptized in a municipality in the Gold Coast and accepted his Christian first n ...
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Biography[edit]

He was born in Anomabo, the son of the Kodwo Kwegyir, a friend of the then master chieftain Amonu IV. In the June 1883, he was baptized in a municipality in the Gold Coast and accepted his Christian first name James. He attended a Methodist school in Cape Coast, where the teachers noted that he was precocious, already studying Greek and Latin, and he subsequently rose to become the school's headmaster.[1]

In 1898, at the age of 23, he was selected due to his education to be trained in the United States as a missionary. On July 10, 1898, Aggrey agreed and left the Gold Coast for the United States, where he settled in Salisbury, North Carolina, and attended the Livingstone College. He studied a variety of subjects at the university, including chemistry, physics, logic, economics and politics. In May 1902 he graduated from the university with three academic degrees. Aggrey was very talented in language and was said to have spoken (beside English) French, German, Ancient and Modern Greek, and Latin.

In November 1903 he was appointed the minister of the African Methodists Zion church in Salisbury. In 1905 he married Rose Douglas, a native of Virginia, with whom he had four children. In the same year he began to teach at Livingstone College. In 1912 he earned his doctorate in theology, and in 1914 followed a doctorate in osteopathy. In the same year he transferred employment to a small municipality to North Carolina. Between 1915 and 1917 Aggrey took up further studies at what is now known as Columbia University, where he studied sociology, psychology and the Japanese language.

In 1920 Paul Monroe, a member of the Phelps Stokes Fund offered Aggrey the opportunity to attend a research expedition to Africa to determine which measures were necessary for the improvement of education in Africa. Aggrey accepted and visited what are now ten different countries in Africa, where he collected and analyzed education data. In 1920 he visited Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Gold Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria. In 1921 he visited the Belgian Congo, Angola and South Africa.

During this journey Aggrey made a significant impression and underscored the importance of education among some people who would become important figures in Africa, including Hastings Kamuzu Banda, later president of Malawi, Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first president of Nigeria, and Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana.

In Ghana he delivered a lecture that persuaded Governor Guggisberg that Achimota College should be co-educational:He was the first vice Principal of Achimota College.

“The surest way to keep people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a whole nation"
In South Africa he delivered a lecture which used the keys of the piano as an image of racial harmony:
I don’t care what you know; show me what you can do. Many of my people who get educated don’t work, but take to drink. They see white people drink, so they think they must drink too. They imitate the weakness of the white people, but not their greatness. They won’t imitate a white man working hard... If you play only the white notes on a piano you get only sharps; if only the black keys you get flats; but if you play the two together you get harmony and beautiful music.[2]
This image was the inspiration for the name adopted by the journal of the League of Coloured Peoples, The Keys.[3]

In 1924 Aggrey was appointed by the governor of the Crown Colony Gold Coast Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg as the First Vice Principal of Achimota College in Accra.He designed the emblem of Achimota College. He resettled with his wife and children at the college, north of Accra.

In May 1927 he returned to the United States, and in July admitted to a hospital in Harlem, New York, where he died later that month.
Julius Okine 11 years ago

The man who spoke and wrote six languages-English,Latin,Greek,French,Japanese and German was a rare human being.His wisdom,his intellect and selflessness,made him a unique African.God bless his soul.

The man who spoke and wrote six languages-English,Latin,Greek,French,Japanese and German was a rare human being.His wisdom,his intellect and selflessness,made him a unique African.God bless his soul.
Coleman USA 11 years ago

The A.M.E. Zion Church recognizing the talents of Dr Aggrey offered him a scholarship at their flagship university Livingstone College in Salisbury North Carolina. The purpose of the scholarship was for him to become a preach ...
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The A.M.E. Zion Church recognizing the talents of Dr Aggrey offered him a scholarship at their flagship university Livingstone College in Salisbury North Carolina. The purpose of the scholarship was for him to become a preacher.
Time and again people with selfish motives have tried to ignore the role of the A.M.E.Zion in the training of Africa's foremost intellectual and give credit to the Methodist Church. This shameful attitude must be condemned and corrected without any hesitation. My point is that, it was the Black Missionaries of the A.M.E. Zion Church that unearthed the talents in the man. Why are we giving credit credit to the white Missionaries. I am a former student of Livingstone and I feel it's disgraceful.
Joe Mensah 11 years ago

I have not read any comment on this web which indicates that credit has been given to the Methodist Church for the training of Dr Aggrey,instead of A.M.E.Zion.

I have not read any comment on this web which indicates that credit has been given to the Methodist Church for the training of Dr Aggrey,instead of A.M.E.Zion.
Coleman USA 11 years ago

Joe don't play that game issues I raised doesn't relate only to this article. You might as well be honest that the biography posted by a reader mention that Dr Aggrey was baptized a Methodist. That alone must tell you the sub ...
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Joe don't play that game issues I raised doesn't relate only to this article. You might as well be honest that the biography posted by a reader mention that Dr Aggrey was baptized a Methodist. That alone must tell you the subtle attempt that has been made over years to distort history. Take it or live it fact is that the Methodist Church played no active role in unearthing the great great talents of Dr Aggrey.
Kwame Adu Ampofo 11 years ago

I live in California but I am ready to go to Salisbury,North Carolina to paricipate in the event next year.Dr Aggrey inspired my father and all my uncles.May God bless his soul.

I live in California but I am ready to go to Salisbury,North Carolina to paricipate in the event next year.Dr Aggrey inspired my father and all my uncles.May God bless his soul.

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