Mfantsipim is an all-boys boarding secondary school in Cape Coast, Ghana. It was established by the Methodist Church in 1876 to foster intellectual, moral, and spiritual growth on the then Gold Coast.
It is the oldest school in Ghana. The school is currently 147 years old(as of 2023). It is a category ‘A’ school. The school has maintained this category for a very long time.
The school was established to train teachers and began with 17 pupils. It was originally planned to be sited in Accra because the British Government had, by 1870, decided to move the capital of the Gold Coast from Cape Coast to Accra.
However, local agitation and the urgent need to put the idea into practice after eleven years of debate pressurised the government to allow the school to begin functioning, but on the understanding that it would later be moved to Accra, though no such move ever took place.
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MOTTO
Dwen Hwɛ Kan
(Think and Look Ahead)
NICKNAME
Kwabotwe
AFFILIATION
Methodist Church of Ghana
NOTABLE ALUMNI
- Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, former Vice President of Ghana
- Kofi Annan, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Kofi Abrefa Busia, former Prime Minister of Ghana
- Kow Nkensen Arkaah, former Vice President of the Republic of Ghana
- Raphael Armattoe, scientist, nationalist, writer
- Mohamed Ibn Chambas, former president of ECOWAS commission
- Joseph W.S. de Graft-Johnson, former Vice President of Ghana
- J. E. Casely Hayford, journalist and politician
- Kobina Arku Korsah, first Chief Justice of Ghana
- Alex Quaison-Sackey, diplomat, first black president of the UN General Assembly
- Kobina Sekyi, lawyer, writer, nationalist
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AWARDS
- Winners of the 1999 and 2014 editions of the National Science and Maths Quiz
- Winners of 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2018 Sprite Ball Championship
- Also in 2020, Cecil Tetteh Kumah, was adjourned the overall best WASSCE Candidate.
- The school has also won various Regional quiz competition awards.