Nana Kuntunkunuku II (born Alexander Kwadwo Fredua Agyeman 22 February 1942 – 17 March 1999) was a traditional ruler in Ghana and Paramount Chief of Akyem-Abuakwa in the Eastern Region . His official title was Okyehene - King of Akyem. He succeeded his uncle, Ofori Atta III, and ruled the Akyems for 23 years. He was succeeded by Amoatia Ofori Panin II. He was the seventh president of the National House of Chiefs and served from 1998 till his death in 1999.
19-572: Alex Fredua Agyeman was born on 22 February 1942, at Kyebi to Samuel Joseph Okoampa Agyeman and Juliana Abena Akoto In 1957, he entered Prempeh College and obtained his GCE Ordinary level Certificate in 1961. He was a member of the pioneering sixth form class of the Accra Academy between 1961 and 1962. His training as a medical doctor begun at the Sofia University in Bulgaria and was continued at
38-844: The Charles University in Prague , Czechoslovakia where he graduated in 1970. In 1972, he practiced medicine at the Korle-Bu Hospital on his return to Ghana. In 1974, he joined the Ridge Hospital in Accra . He worked as well in the Castle Clinic and was medical officer in charge of the Stadium Clinic in Accra. In 1976, he was selected as King of Akyem Abuakwa. He was installed on August 2, 1976, as
57-626: The Presbyterian Church of Ghana . The school is named after the King of Ashanti ( Asantehene ), Sir Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II , who donated the land on which the school was built, and was modeled on Eton College in England. The school topped matriculation at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2004, with 441 students admitted, and in 2012, with 296 students from
76-599: The 34th occupant of the Ofori Panin Stool at the age of 34. As chief, he tried to encourage investors, mostly foreign, to start businesses on Akyem lands and in Ghana, travelling and having meetings in western European nations . Between 1994 and 1998 he served two terms as president of the Eastern regional House of Chiefs. He served as the chairman of the lands committee of the national house of chiefs. He served as representative of
95-610: The Eastern regional House of chiefs to the Constituent Assembly which drafted the Ghanaian constitution in 1992. He was a member of the Eastern regional coordinating Council. In 1998 he was elected president of the National House of Chiefs and became a member of the council of state. He had 6 children from 3 marriages. He died on Wednesday, March 17 at dawn after a short illness at 37 Military Hospital . During his reign, there
114-692: The National Science and Maths Quiz competitions. Prempeh College has also won the Ghana National Debate Championship competition a record two times, in 1997 and 2004. Prempeh College is the first secondary institution in Ghana and Africa to win the World Robofest 2016, or World Robotics Competition, beating giants from China, Japan and other industrialized countries. They won the Toyota Innovation Award that year and are
133-856: The Regional Robotics Competition 2012, Achievement in Best Programming at the Robotics Inspired Science Education Competition 2011, The 2016 National Robofest Qualifiers, Presec-Legon, Ghana Champions. The school represented Ghana at the World robotics olympiad in New Delhi India . The school also represented Ghana at the World Robotics Online Competition, where the school amassed a total of 22 trophies. A total of three teams were presented by
152-868: The Southern zone based on their experience, to help set up a school in the middle belt of Ghana to serve the northern sector of the country. Although there were some delays due to the Second World War, Prempeh College was designed in 1948 by British modernist architects Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew . Compared to other works by Jane Drew in the Ashanti region , Prempeh College campus was designed to incorporate modernist refinements, as described by Lain Jackson and Jessica Holland in their book titled The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew: Twentieth Century Pioneer Modernism and
171-737: The college admitted. The school has won the National Robotics Championships a record five times between 2013 and 2021. In 2016, Prempeh College won the Toyota Innovation Award at the International Robofest World Championships held in Michigan , USA . In the early 1940s, the British Colonial Government invited the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches, which had already established schools in
190-448: The college suit for ceremonial purposes, such as speech days and graduation ceremonies. The magazine of Prempeh College has long been called The Stool . It is a 100-page document that gives annual reports for the school. With a patron, an editorial board, and the SRC, they deliver the all-formidable magazine to the student body. What has always been featured, for example, are perceptions about
209-426: The headmaster was E. K. Yeboah, a member of CHASS. The school uniform includes a green shirt with the college crest along with a brown short(Awura abena). Students wear this to class on a daily basis. For ceremonial purposes, students wear a green jacket with embroidery of the college crest. The college blazer (suit) was in use from the beginning in 1949, was dropped in the 1980s, and was revived in 2003. Students wear
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#1732897770147228-467: The many other technical posts on the fulling of which by Africans the future development of Ashanti and the Gold Coast as a whole largely depends … We British from overseas are here to help you ultimately to administer the country yourselves … until you yourselves can provide the agriculturalists, engineers, the technicians and the tradesmen who can develop the natural resources of your country." As of 2012,
247-402: The only school from Africa to have done so. Prempeh College Robotics Club has also won a number of other robotics awards over the years. Some of their achievements include: 2016 Ashanti Regional Robotics Champions, Robofest Toyota Innovation Award Champions 2016, Robofest National Champions 2016, National Robotics 2015, National Robotics Champions 2014, Regional Robotics Champions 2013, winners of
266-641: The pollution of water bodies in those areas. He also elevated a number of Odikros or Care takers to paramountcy. Prempeh College Prempeh College is a public secondary boarding school for boys located in Kumasi , the capital city of the Ashanti Region , Ghana . The school was founded in 1949 by the Asanteman traditional authority, the British Colonial Government, the Methodist Church Ghana and
285-469: The school from outside, short messages from students of the college to other schools, interviews with alumni, and many other interesting features. Prempeh College was the first school to win the National Science and Maths Quiz in 1994 and 1996. The College also won the 2015, 2017 and 2021 editions of the Ghana National Science and Maths Quiz that makes them one of the most successful schools in
304-452: The school, with the teams 1st, 3rd, and 5th spots in the competition. The school became the first ever to win the competition for a second consecutive time, having won the prior competition in Michigan. However, the 2020 edition was held online due to the impact of COVID-19 on travelling. Ashanti Pioneer The Ashanti Pioneer was a private newspaper in Ghana from 1939 to 1962. It
323-545: The tropics . According to the Ashanti Pioneer newspaper, the opening ceremony of Prempeh College was held on 5 February 1949, when Major C. O. Butler, the chief commissioner of Ashanti, said in an address: "There is a great and growing need for training men to take up posts of responsibility not just as clerks in offices but in Agricultural Education, Mining, Forestry, Architecture, Engineering and Building in
342-511: Was "a major mouthpiece for Asante interests". It was founded in Kumasi in 1939, at the start of World War II , by husband and wife John Tsiboe and Nancy Tsiboe , who operated the Abura Printing Works together. As the war was ending, the newspaper shifted coverage from war to nationalist movement within Ghana . It covered the eventual start of political parties and also played a role in
361-600: Was an increase in the number of educational institutions in the Akyem Abukwa Traditional area. He also established some second-cycle schools in the Atiwa Constituency. Abuakwa Constituency also had some second-cycle schools established there. He also established gold mines in the traditional area his reign. He also listened to complains of the people in some surrounding villages about the environmental problem caused by some gold mines. Surface gold mining led to
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