Mawuli School

Mawuli School is a co-educational, boarding senior high school located in Ho in the Ho Municipal district in the Volta Region of Ghana. [1][2]

History

The school was founded in 1950 by the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. It was the first senior high school to be established in the former British mandate territory of Trans-Volta Togoland.

The name “Mawuli” is a popular Ewe name in the Volta Region, and means "There is a God". The name and school motto “Head Heart Hand”, were submitted by students.

Programmes offered

• Business
• General arts
• General science
• Home economics
• Technical skills (Auto Mechanics and Applied Electricity)
• Visual arts
• Graphics
• Ceramics
• General Agriculture

Notable alumni

• Eric Edem Agbana - Ghanaian politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu North constituency
• Selase Agbenyefia – Ghanaian helicopter pilot
• Nelson Agbesi – Volta Regional Minister (1979–1980), Minister for Agriculture (1980–1981)
• Samuel Koku Anyidoho – Deputy General-Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (2014–2018)
• Akofa Edjeani Asiedu – Ghanaian actress
• Oscar Korbla Mawuli Awuku – Ghanaian body artist, painter, and sculptor
• Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor – Ghanaian politician and the Member of Parliament for South Dayi constituency
• Akua Sena Dansua – Ghanaian journalist and politician
• Leila Djansi – Ghanaian filmmaker
• Harry Dumashie - Chief of the Defence Staff, Chief of Air Staff and member of the Provisional National Defence Council
• Smile Dzisi – rector and interim vice-chancellor of the Koforidua Technical University
• Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi – Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist, curator and philanthropist, founder and artistic director of perfocraZe International Artists Residency (pIAR)
• Ernest Gaewu – Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana
• Bernice Heloo – MP Hohoe North and former deputy Minister for Environment Science, Technology and Innovations
• Jerry Kuma – vice-chancellor of the University of Mines and Technology
• Efo Kodjo Mawugbe – Ghanaian award-winning playwright and former director of the National Theatre of Ghana
• Elizabeth Akua Ohene – Ghanaian journalist

Gallery of School

See also

• Education in Ghana
• List of senior high schools in Ghana

References

External links

• Official website