About Prempeh College

Prempeh College, a public secondary boarding school for boys, is located in Kumasi, the capital city of the Ashanti Region, Ghana. The school was founded in 1949 by the Asanteman traditional authority, the British Colonial Government, the Methodist Church Ghana, and the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. The school is named after the King of Ashanti (Asantehene), Sir Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II, who donated the land on which the school was built. It was modeled after Eton College in England, with the goal of providing quality education to boys in the region. In the early 1940s, the British Colonial Government invited the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches, which had already established schools in the Southern zone, to help set up a school in the middle belt of Ghana. This was to serve the northern sector of the country, which had a great need for educational institutions. Although there were some delays due to the Second World War, Prempeh College was designed in 1948 by British modernist architects Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. Compared to other works by Jane Drew in the Ashanti region, Prempeh College campus was designed to incorporate modernist refinements, as described by Lain Jackson and Jessica Holland in their book titled “The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew: Twentieth Century Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics.” 5, 1949. According to the Ashanti Pioneer newspaper, the opening ceremony of Prempeh College was held on February 5, 1949. Major C. O. Butler, the chief commissioner of Ashanti, gave an address in which he emphasized the need for training men to take up posts of responsibility not just as clerks in offices but in Agricultural Education, Mining, Forestry, Architecture, Engineering, and Building, and in many other technical posts. He stressed that the future development of Ashanti and the Gold Coast as a whole largely depended on Africans filling these roles. He also expressed the hope that the British would help Ghanaians develop their country until they could provide their own agriculturalists, engineers, technicians, and tradesmen. Since its founding, Prempeh College has become an outstanding institution in academics, sports, and other areas. The college has produced many notable alumni who have made significant contributions to Ghana and the world. In 2024, the college celebrates its 75th anniversary with the theme “75 years of outstanding leadership and service to society.’ In this era of technology and artificial intelligence, Prempeh College has constantly displayed great dexterity in the field of robotics. Prempeh College is the first secondary institution in Ghana and Africa to to win the World Robofest in 2016, beating giants from China, Japan, and other industrialized countries. The college won the Toyota Innovation Award that year and is the only school from Africa to have done so, The Prempeh College Robotics Club has also won numerous robotics awards."