SPIRIT NEVER DIES After weeks of preparation, The Day of Reckoning finally arrived. The evening of 5th October, 2019, was no ordinary one: a mass of excited students proudly arrayed in blue, red, green, and yellow, gathered in the Margaret Nkrumah Hall to valiantly bid for the title of 2019 Inter-Hostel Singing Competition Champions. Seeing the resplendently attired students, one could be excused for pre-judging a winner based on the gorgeous African-themed choir uniforms. However, the judges had more technical benchmarks in mind as they listened keenly for pitch and melody; observed coordination; and marvelled at the expert conducting. The Vikings had the whole auditorium

Biography – Patrick G. Awuah Jr. Founder & President, Ashesi University, Ghana Patrick Awuah is the Founder and President of Ashesi University, a private, not-for-profit institution that has quickly gained a reputation as one of Ghana’s finest institutions of higher learning. Patrick left Ghana in 1985 when Swarthmore accepted him on a near-full scholarship. In 2001, after living in America for almost two decades, Patrick Awuah returned to Ghana. Before founding Ashesi University, Patrick worked as a Program Manager for Microsoft where, among other things, he spearheaded the development of dial-up internet working technologies and gained a reputation for bringing difficult projects to

On Thursday, September 15, 2016 a group of 57 IB1 and IB2 students and seven staff members had the opportunity to witness Professor Naa Ayikailey Adamafio, B.Sc. (Hons) Biochemistry with Chemistry (University of Ghana), Ph.D Biochemistry (Monash University) deliver her Inaugural Lecture on the topic “Ghana’s Biomass Imperative: Surmounting the Biochemical Barriers”. After short initial hiccups with finding a bus driver who would take us to East Legon, the group set off in good spirits. Everybody managed to find a seat on the bus and the exact number of students coming with was determined without fail. We arrived well on time and

Alas! The day for the long awaited English language trip to Prampram had arrived. The excitement in the air was palpable, as students were eager to put into practice, everything that had been taught in the weeks leading to this trip, such as sentence types and descriptive writing. We boarded the buses at 9:00 am and set off in high spirits for our destination. We passed by clusters of lush looking undergrowth, that sported a lovely green colour ,while enjoying a smooth ride since the roads were in good condition, as compared to the roads in other parts in Ghana.    We

On Wednesday 5th October a group of 20 delegates of the ICERDA 2016 Conference visited SOS-HGIC. They were given a tour of the college premises by members of the Senior Management Team and then had a meeting with Heads of Departments and SMT to learn about SOS-HGIC’s history and find out more about some aspects about the work that is being done here and how parts of what we are doing at SOS-HGIC can be used in Public Education.     ICERDA is an academic research partnership, which was established between the University of Sussex, UK and the University of Ghana, Accra in

  We are at the time of the year where IB2s are currently undergoing the process of selecting and applying to the places they would like to spend the next four years of their life in. This point in the academic year is all about making the right decisions and the right plans and on Monday, the 5th of September, four of the most prestigious universities in the US visited us to help us make these important choices. Admissions officers from Cornell, Columbia, Princeton and Dartmouth, four of the eight ivy league schools, made their way into the Margaret Nkrumah Hall at 1pm

The thick tension in the Dining Hall was extremely palpable. Weeks upon weeks of training, tough rehearsals, and weary nights had culminated student efforts to this very point- The Singing Competition. Year after year, students from across the scope of Africa, united through SOS-HGIC, participate in a compulsory Inter-hostel Singing Competition. To the layman’s eye, this competition is just a bunch of people in different clothing, singing, but its significance goes way beyond that.    Every choir is in it to win it, with persistence and perseverance being the order of the day. For weeks leading up to this moment, 3 hours each

IB1 Biology and Physics students embarked on residential fieldtrips from June 1st/2nd to June 7th. Trip destinations were the Atewa Range Forest Reserve and the Bunso Cocoa College for Biology students, KNUST in Kumasi for Physics and the Slapton Ley Field Studies Centre in Devon, UK for the remaining Biology students.