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Aggrey Of Africa Remembered

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  • Frank Appiah 9 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.

  • Michael Adu 9 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.

  • KWADWO 9 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

  • Hajia halimatu 9 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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  • NOBODY 9 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.

  • Joe Mensah 9 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.

  • MAME MANSA 9 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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  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

    YOU CAN GOGGLE HIS PICTURES.

  • GoodWill 9 years ago

    Thank you Dr. Aggrey for your contribution.

  • PROF 9 years ago

    HE MADE AFRICA PROUD. A TRULY GREAT MAN.

  • GoodWill 9 years ago

    Rich display of Fante Culture, wish I was there.

  • SOJOURNER BRUISED 9 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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  • Ghanaman 9 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.

  • COS90 9 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.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 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,
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  • mahall 9 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.

  • ABLETSI 9 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.

  • OSABERIMA 9 years ago

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

  • Just Asking 9 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!

  • obaa 9 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.

  • Tewia 9 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.

  • PEKI TUMU 9 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

  • PEKI TUMU 9 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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  • makamakamakam 9 years ago

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

    Well done Mfanstiman...!!!

  • makamakamakam 9 years ago

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

    tIS IS MEDICO and it sure has been.

  • Oheneba Asare 9 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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  • Oheneba Asare 9 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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  • Oheneba Asare 9 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

  • Oheneba Asare 9 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

  • Oheneba Asare 9 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

  • MenayeAFUAforiwa 9 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.

  • KOFI ABROKWA - HOUSTON, TX. 9 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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  • Julius Okine 9 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.

  • Coleman USA 9 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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  • Joe Mensah 9 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.

  • Coleman USA 9 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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  • Kwame Adu Ampofo 9 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.