The 2025 Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture Series will be delivered by Mrs. Josephine Anan-Ankomah, Regional Executive for Central, Eastern and Southern Africa and Managing Director, Ecobank Kenya.

The details are as follows: 

Topic: "Her Money, Her Power: Making Finance Work for Women" 

 Date: Thursday 13th March 2025 and Friday 14th March 2025

Time: 4:30pm  

Venue: Great Hall, University of Ghana 

The two-day lecture series will culminate with the conferment of an honorary doctorate degree on the Lecturer.

Kindly book the dates and times ahead to attend the Lectures.

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About the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectures

The Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture Series was instituted in 1957 to commemorate the contributions made by the three persons memorialised to the founding of Achimota College, now Achimota School, where the University of Ghana started from.

This Lecture series, more generally, celebrates these founding fathers of Achimota School for their contributions to the advancement of education and particularly higher education in Ghana.

The three persons honoured by the lectures are:

Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey

One of the early Ghanaian scholars known for his famous quote “If you educate a man, you educate an individual but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation”. A native of Anomabu in Ghana, Aggrey was a great African visionary and spokesman for racial harmony and equality. He was the first Vice-Principal of Achimota College. His outstanding contributions are symbolised in the shield of the school, the black and white piano keys which stand for harmony among the black and white races.

Reverend Alexander Garden Fraser

The first Principal of Achimota College, Fraser was a humane, courageous and far-sighted Scottish educationist who brilliantly advocated education in what was then the Gold Coast in the days of skepticism about the educational potential of the African.

Brigadier-General Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg

Guggisberg was perhaps the best administrator that Britain ever sent to govern a West African colony. Far in advance of the official colonial thinking of his day, he gave concrete expression to the ideals which formed the basis of Ghana’s present progress. Under his vigorous sponsorship, Achimota College grew to become one of the most distinguished educational institutions in Africa. Railways, major roads and a major hospital were also constructed during his tenure.

The Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Lecture Series, which is often delivered annually, is a major event in the life of the University of Ghana and indeed of the country. Choice of theme and the topics to be treated are entirely up to the discretion of the lecturer, who is invariably very distinguished in his or her field of endeavour.