James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey (Racial Harmony)

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If you educate a woman, you educate a whole nation (James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey)

1. EENI Principle of Racial Harmony of EENI Global Business School
2. Principle of Racial Harmony James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey (black and white keys of a piano)
3. Principle of Racial Harmony of James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey and Tristan and Isolde (Reflection by Pedro Nonell, founder of EENI)
4. Beyond the black and white keys (implications for EENI)

James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, one of the most famous African intellectuals, was born on October 18, 1875, in Gold Coast (now Ghana). He was also a missionary and teacher. He was of the Fanti ethnic group. After a few years in the United States, he returned to Africa.

1. 1989: James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey obtains a scholarship to be educated as a missionary in the United States, as well as a study in chemistry, physics, logic, economics and politics.
2. He studied English, French, German, Ancient Greek and Latin
3. 1903: appointed as Minister of the African Episcopal Methodist Church of Zion in Salisbury
4. 1905: Professor at the Livingstone College
5. 1912: Doctorate in Theology
6. 1914: Doctorate in Osteopathy
7. 1915-1917: Sociology, Psychology and Japanese studies at the Columbia University
8. 1920: returns to Africa, with the mission to analyse the improvements in the educational system in Africa. Trips to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gold Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria
9. 1921: trips to the Belgian Congo, Angola and South Africa. Contacts with the future presidents of Ghana (Kwame Nkrumah) and Nigeria (Nnamdi Azikiwe)
10. 1927: Emman Kwegyir Aggrey dies in New York

The image of James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey on the 5 Cedis banknotes of Ghana (2017)

After his visit to Ghana, James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey arranged for Achimota College to be mixed (men and women). He was also the Deputy Director of the Achimota College. In the following sentence we can see his vision regarding the education of women:

“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” James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey

Many Africans consider him one of the fathers of the new African educational system. EENI endorses this principle, which is why one of our priorities is to facilitate the access to higher education for the African women

The following sentence of James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey is a personal positioning to the colonial powers, very daring in full colonial era:

“Africa should be civilised not westernised” James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey

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