December 2001:
It was exactly a year ago that JA Kufuor (formerly of Butler House) defeated the NDC party in the Ghana Presidential Elections.
In this photo, Ghanaians fed with up Rawlingstocracy carry a "coffin with the NDC in it," intended for burial. They did indeed bury the notorious party and held a funeral for it.
November 2001:
A memorable scene of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, affectionately known as Gee, not far from campus, where most Amanfoo received immunizations as children.
October 2001:
"You have been so hearty and counselling of us, that we shall never forget your favour towards us."
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress.
Photopraphy: Sajo Idrizinovic
This is the interview scene of the David Gyimah-produced Prempeh College documentary;
Reverend Sidney Nelson Pearson delves back into history by perusing pictures from his life in Ghana and during the embryonic days of The Kings College.
David and his team went to the first Headmaster's home in Scotland, where they filmed him by the seaside (in April 2000).
Not knowing whether his choice would be a pig in a poke, Asantehene Nana Prempeh II gave Reverend Pearson, who had just arrived from England, the responsibility
of establishing Asante's first school. Critics argued that Pearson would never be able to succeed with such a school, but his labours did bear fruits and Prempeh College became a success.
For all those who benefited from Rev. Pearson's great foundation and the thousands of generations of Amanfoo who will come and benefit from it, "we shall never forget his favour towards us."
September 2001:
A STRAIN OF RARENESS: Have you ever seen the Great One in a suit? Here's the Asantehene,
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II (center) with some children at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia when he visited the institution on June 4, 2001. Bompatahene is in the blue suit (with his hands together; smiling; on the right). Dwabenhene is on the left in blue suit and blue tie.
August 2001:
G'berg House's own Maxwell "Kofi Ghana" Jumah (the man who brought JA Kufuor to prempeh.org) in his office in Kumasi, where he is now the Mayor.
July 2001:
His Majesty King Osei Tutu II and HRH Charles, The Prince of Wales together at the University of Glasgow in June 2001; they were both receipients of Honourary Doctor of Laws at the Scottish University.
June 2001:
Prempeh College - where every Senior had a Senior. In this photo, His Majesty King Osei Tutu II welcomes his Prempeh College Senior, JA Kufuor to his Palace in Manhyia in February 2001. The King was taken to Prempeh College in his green shirt, and admitted to Form 1
three years after Senior Kufuor left Butler House. However, on that reopening day, The King's uncle, Oheneba Mensah Bonsu, who had been instructed by the Late Asantehene, King Prempeh II, to guard the growth of the future King in those critical years of development, saw something unusual on the campus.
Just before Nana Bonsu left the future King behind, he saw with great wonder numerous royals from all over the country roaming around the campus. The house which liitle Kwaku Duah was assigned, had the future Akyem King, the heir to the Kumawu throne and the future Akyempemhene.
Among the many royals of the College at that time were those of Kwawu, New Dwaben, Adansi, Krobo, Mampong, Asokore; as well as countless others who are currently in line to inherit the thrones of Edweso, Hwidiem, Kokofu, Mampong, Akyem, etc. And since he did not want the future Asantehene to commix with them, he took him away to another school.
In his first interview as Asantehene (June 1999, Uneek Magazine), King Osei Tutu II told his "Prempeh heritage story" to the whole world. One can can just imagine the power and the prestige the name Prempeh College evokes around the world: in the very first paragraph of his first interview as King, His Majesty attested to the greatness of King Prempeh's School, and how he missed being a part of it all. He did not even talk about the school he was transferred to! There's something about the great Prempeh College!
May 2001:
The Akyemhene, Osagyefuo Kuntunkununku II, Class of '61, then President of National House of Chiefs, welcoming Koo Klinton to Ghana.
Photopraphy: Richard Foster
April 2001:
Fabulous Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football Club, twice African Champions, 5 time runners up.
Can you identify the players and Coaches? 1. Goaalkeeper Joe Carr, 2. Ernest Apau, 3.
Akwasi Appiah, 4. Seth Ampadu, 5. Addae Kyenkyenhene, 6. Skipper Papa Arko, 7. John Smith Bannerman, 8. Joe Tex, 9. Ebo Mends, 10. Samuel Opoku Nti, 11. Kofi Abbrey, and many more.
March 2001: Kumasi Sports Stadium as we knew it.
Get a view of that memorable place. There is no other place in history where so many wars have been fought
as "Stadium." Senior Ampomah Benefo (middle, No. 769)
posing with a female athlete from a sister school.
February 2001: Prempeh boys are necromancers. When JA Kufuor appeared at
The Golden Jubilee Celebration on December 4, 1999,
the Presidential Candidate got a
surprise from the students. They sang a specially made song
for Kufuor: Agya Kufuor, afe yi die ebeye yie (As for
this year, you will win the Presidency). True to their prediction, Mr. Kufuor
went on to win the Presidency one year later.
This is Amanfoo solidarity at its best.
January 2001: Mr. JA Kufuor, Class of '58, is sworn in as Ghana's President on January 7, 2001.
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