A Word
From Our President
Welcome to OAA 1980. We have nicknamed ourselves GC80, or Good Company 80 after a powerful sermon by one of our mates Pastor Charles Nsiah during our 40th anniversary reunion service in 2015 at the Aggrey Chapel. The sermon was about the importance of the company we keep – a message that resonated with us and the students alike.
In 1975, from Gambaga to Accra, from Wiawso to Keta, we became brothers and sisters with a special bond. Today, whether we are in North America, Europe or Ghana we have kept this unbreakable link.
Just as Aggrey described the stylized piano key design of our School Crest saying “You can play a tune of sorts on the black keys only; you can play a tune of sorts on the white keys only; but for perfect harmony, you must use both the black and the white key’s to play a good tune”, we celebrate our diversity and acknowledge that Achimota School guided us to be who we are today.
We learn that we may teach and we subjugate ourselves to live the School’s founding doctrine…. “to go forth as living waters to a thirsty land.”
Our website is designed to make it easier to play the game, shout her name, spread her fame afar, whilst we serve country, the school and support ourselves, God being our helper.
Welcome!
– Caroline Odarkai (Boye) Andah
Year Group President
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The Old Achimotan Association (OAA80) body was formed in 1996 to enable former students of the 1980 year group to maintain contact with each by arranging socials, fund raising activities and to continue to retain their links with the school.
Members can make their Payments by the following methods;
- Directly into the OAA 1980 Year Group Ecobank account, Branch – 19 Seventh Avenue, Ridge West, Bank Account no. 3034402576201 (please notify Caro Boye upon making payments) or,
- Using the Online payment facility on the website (by clicking the DONATE icon below)
Achimota School (formerly Prince of Wales College and School, Achimota, later Achimota College, now nicknamed Motown), is a co-educational boarding school located at Achimota in Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana. The school was founded in 1924 by Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg,
The motto of the school is Ut Omnes Unum Sint meaning “That all may be one”, a reference to the founders’ expressed philosophy that starting in the context of school life, black and white, male and female, everyone should integrate and combine synergistically for the good of all. An alumnus/alumna of Achimota is known as an “Akora”.
ACHIMOTA SCHOOL SONG
From Gambaga to Accra,
from Wiawso to Keta,
We are brothers and our mother is our school.
She will guide us all and each,
So to learn that we may teach.
So to subjugate ourselves that we may rule.
Chorus:
Play the game, shout her name!
Spread her fame afar.
She’s the head of all the host,
She’s the school of whom we boast.
She is the glory of the coast, ACHIMOTA!
When our books are laid aside
And we scatter far and wide,
We remember with affection all we gained
How we learned to take our share
In the life and labour there
Where the men of whom we are proudest of were trained
Chorus:
Play the game, shout her name!
Spread her fame afar.
She’s the head of all the host,
She’s the school of whom we boast.
She is the glory of the coast, ACHIMOTA!
Composer: Rev. Alec. G. Fraser, MA, CBE
(First Principal 1924-35)
ACHIMOTA SCHOOL HYMN
Grey city of the outlaws hill,
Quick with the hope which makes sublime
Still in Thy youth, thou dare’st to look
Far on the centuries of time.
Born but to rule through service given,
The ages all belong to Thee,
O may Thy life more humble grow
Through Him whose service makes us free.
He who wept o’er Jerusalem,
And yearned to turn the chastening rod,
Long in His steadfast love to build
In Thee a city for our God.
Then shall Thy sons and daughters, say
As back to Thee they look with joy,
Praise God who gave us there to share,
The freedom of his grand employ.
Well springs of wisdom are in Thee;
With harvests rich Thy hillsides sing;
Thou givest life, so mayest Thou be
For aye a City of our King.
Though set upon a desert hill,
May living waters rise in Thee;
And from Thy children wider flow
The rivers of eternity.
Composer: Rev. Alec. G. Fraser, MA, CBE
(First Principal 1924-35)
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