Ashesi is celebrating 20 years of impactful leadership and training. Hear what the Founder and President of the Ashesi University and Foundation, Dr Patrick Awuah has to say.
“It's been a fantastic journey these last twenty years. Ashe…
A team from Ashesi University has emerged winner of this year’s local competition of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute Research Challenge after beating teams drawn from other local universities.
The Grade A Capital team,…
MASTER’S PROGRAMME WELCOMES PIONEER CLASS
Ashesi University in collaboration with ETH Zurich has welcomed students for the Master's Programme in Mechatronic engineering.
A total number of 26 students, drawn from Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory…
Ashesi University has introduced a new masters degree in Mechatronic Engineering. The Masters Programme, designed to be taught at the university together with ETH Zurich, will train Engineering leaders in Africa to harness emerging and d…
My daughter graduated from high school in Ghana this month. And as the names of classmates from across the continent rolled across our screen during the virtual graduation ceremony, my family and I felt great pride for her hard work, her a…
Twelve Ashesi alumni have been selected as inaugural fellows for Ashesi's new entrepreneurship support programme, the Ashesi Venture Incubator. The Venture Incubator is a one-year incubation experience for recent graduates and alumni of th…
Ashesi welcomed faculty and staff from Arizona State University (ASU) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to campus in June as part of efforts to deepen ties amongst the three institutions. Under partnerships…
Accra, Ghana’s capital city, generates over 2500 tonnes of plastic waste daily, yet only 2% of this is recycled. The rest is usually improperly disposed-off in dumps, drains, landfills and along roads. For Ashesi recent graduate Elona Doe-…
The Education Collaborative at Ashesi launched in 2017 to serve as a platform for African universities to collaborate and share best practices. Since then, the platform has continued to see progress, with some 200 teachers, leaders and oth…
Since 4th March 2002, when Ashesi opened its doors to a pioneer class of 30 students in a single rented building in Labone, the university has seen steady growth. Today, Ashesi’s permanent campus, located on a 100-acre campus in Berekuso, …
Moses Yangnemenga has been farming since childhood. Growing up in the rural agricultural town of Nandom in Ghana’s Upper West Region, he helped his parents to cultivate groundnuts, beans, maize, millet and sorghum. “Even before you are ten…
Very little escapes the watchful eye of Anani Assiongnon.
At his post, outside the Nina Marina Admissions Office, overlooking the Archer Cornfield Courtyard, Anani, a member of Ashesi's campus security team, is usually the first contac…
All work and no fun makes student life dull at Ashesi, especially leading up to finals week!
The Ashesi Student Council, held its 9th annual Ubora awards; a night of glamour, characterized by fine dining, music, and performances. Since …
In November 2018, a student team from Ashesi’s Design lab along with 27 other student teams across the world, participated in the 2018 Global Retail Challenge held by Retail Industry Leaders Association and the Bensadoun school of Retail M…
December 6, 2018, was almost exactly four years since Christine Buckle ‘19 first sang at the annual Christmas on the Hill concert at Ashesi.
Then a wide-eyed, freshmen, trying to figure out a rhythm to her new college life, she was imp…
In August 2018, Ashesi welcomed Zainab Oluwatoyosi Ayinde from Wheaton College, Massachusetts. Studying to be a dentist eventually, with a concentration in African, African American and Diaspora Studies at Wheaton, Zainab chose to come to …
According to the International Labour Organisation, over 192 million people the world over are unemployed, and this number is expected to continue to rise steadily over time.
Essentially, there are not enough job openings for the growin…
In 1994, a major conflict between the Nanumba and Konkonma ethnic groups in Northern Ghana left over 1000 people dead, and tens of thousands displaced.
Among the displaced was young Mutaru Mumuni Muqthar ’07 and his family, who relocate…
A year after the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) inducted its first cohort of entrepreneurs, the innovation hub is looking to make deeper impact within the climate space across Ghana.
Located on Ashesi’s campus, the GCIC, in the …
Since 2004, the self-driving car technology has shifted from wildly experimental to evidently possible. Google, Uber, Tesla and other leading tech and automotive companies are in the race to produce the safest and most reliable self-drivin…
Coaching was the last thing on Nana Ama’s mind when she got admitted into Ashesi, much less coaching a men’s football team.
However, in her second year at Ashesi, she inspired an undefeated, championship run from a team that, only a few…
After frequent fire outbreaks at the Kumasi Central market in 2016 and 2017, and a planned demolition exercise to clear up space, countless business were on the verge of closing, including Epton Owusu’s ‘14 family’s Kente business.
Epto…
Every year friends of Ashesi travel to Ghana on the Annual Trip to gain a deeper understanding of the culture of innovation, entrepreneurship, and ethical leadership at Ashesi University.
During your time on campus you'll hear from univ…
World Bank Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Sandie Okoro, visited Ashesi as part of her 4-day visit to Ghana.
The trip was to help her gain a deeper appreciation for the bank’s projects on the ground, including the Ghana Clim…
Two or three times a semester, Ashesi’s Norton Motulsky Hall takes on a different feel: dimmed lights, chairs arranged in an intimate arc, and a keenly engaged audience taking in a rich mix of musical performances.
Welcome to the Piano…
It’s nearly 8pm, but there’s a palpable buzz in the Mechanical Engineering lab. A handful of students are huddled around Nicholas Tali and Helen Korley ‘20 who are working as fast as they can: soldering, cutting, bending and snipping cable…
Over three days, some 50 high school students tinkered with robots, built electric circuits and learned how to code basic computer applications in Ashesi’s computer labs. The experience, themed Robotech, formed part of a workshop orgranise…
If you ask Queenie Dankwa '12, working in the construction industry had been the last thing on her mind when she was growing up.
She had always been drawn to corporate multinationals. After all, following her Business Administration deg…
The founder of Ashesi University College in Ghana and campaigner to raise the quality of higher education in Africa has won a major global education award.
Patrick Awuah left Ghana in the 1980s with "$50 in his pocket" to take up a scho…
Following a competitive pitching process, six Cohort One businesses from the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) have been awarded Proof of Concept (PoC) grants totalling $ 124,900. The companies are:
Alchemy Alternative Energy
…
In 2016, Moses Yangnemenga spent the long break working on his family’s farm in Nandom Biiregaugn, a largely agrarian community in Upper West Ghana. Year after year though, Moses had observed severe setbacks in the farming sector within hi…
A cross section of top executives from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) visited Ashesi to interact with students about the global banking industry, banking trends, and also share insights into opportunities at the bank.
Led by To…
Led by senior, Benedict Quartey ‘17, Team Onyx edged out three other teams to come out on top in the inaugural Intelligent Campus Challenge, hosted by GE-Digital, General Electric’s tech and analytics unit. Hector Amoah ’17, Mac-Noble Brak…
For the second year running, members of Ashesi’s community were selected to participate in the New Business Challenge, held in locations in Ghana and in the Netherlands. The three Byran Achiampong '18, Kingsley Agyekum '17 and Audrey S-Dar…
22 college graduates from 15 countries across Africa participated in the first edition of 10Academy. Organized by Infinite Potentials Consulting (IPC), the focus of the fully funded program was to identify, train and launch high potential …
For their final project for the year, members of the freshmen engineering class designed and built solar powered smart irrigation systems. The project was part of the six-week long Introduction to Engineering class, where the students are …
June 4 - June 9, 2017 - Staff, faculty and administrators from 12 tertiary institutions in and beyond Africa participated in the inaugural Education Collaborative - an idea sharing platform for education leaders and stakeholders in Africa …
June 19, 2017 – In a brief ceremony held at Ashesi’s Norton-Motulsky Hall, 39 graduates, recruited from tertiary institutions across Ghana, were inducted as Teach for Ghana fellows.
The ceremony also kicked-off a six-week training progr…
April 21, 2017 – Vice President of Engineering at Google, Yossi Matias, visited Ashesi to speak with students and faculty from the Engineering and Computer Science departments.
While in Ghana, Yossi spoke at the 2017 Data Protectio…
Four Ashesi students were selected to participate in the 18th annual Geneva Model United Nations (GIMUN) conference, in Geneva, Switzerland. Started in 1999 by the United Nations, the GIMUN offers students a unique multilateral platform to…
Sophomore, Ifashabayo Sylvain Dejoie ’19 has been selected as the 2017/2018 Dalai Lama Fellow at Ashesi. As part of his nomination, Dejoie, will receive year-long dedicated coaching and mentorship in expanding his work with Anidaso, a soci…
For Abubakar Sulemana, Chief Information Officer of General Electric Africa, being mindful of your day-to-day experiences matter immensely in growing one's career and personal life. On a visit to Ashesi, he shared some of those experiences…
At Ashesi, Regina Honu (neé Agyare) ‘05 was a step away from switching her major away from Computer Science after struggling through the introductory Visual Basic class in her first year. Fortunately, she abandoned the idea and persisted t…
In July 2016, 33 young men and women completed Teach for Ghana’s first training workshop held at Ashesi, becoming inaugural fellows for the organisation. The six-week workshop focused on equipping the fellows with transferable leadership s…
Seven Ashesi students participated in the 63rd edition of the Harvard National Model United Nations Conference from the 16th to 19th of February, 2017. The convening, the largest and oldest of its kind, brings over 3,000 students and facul…
The Integrity Campaign is an initiative of Ashesi’s Class of 2019, led by Carol Armah ’19, to educate high school students about integrity and ethics in their academic careers. “We came to Ashesi to gain all this knowledge about integrit…
In 2015, Ashesi launched a new engineering program, offering degrees in Computer, Mechanical, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Gender parity is a key goal of the program, to ensure that the perspectives of African women guide the…
At the national finals of the 2016 edition of the Unilever IdeaTrophy competition, Jane Amerley Annan ‘17 and Wilma Amoo-Osae ’17, working together on a team, emerged runners up.
Unilever IdeaTrophy is an annual business competition run…
Students from the Ashesi University have beaten five top universities to emerge winners of the maiden model democracy 2016 Inter-Schools Debate held at the British Council in Accra.
The Inter-school debate, which was to provide students…
In the heart of Accra lies Agbobloshie, a sprawling scrapyard once tagged as one of most toxic places on earth. A former wetland, Agbobloshie has become a dumpsite for electronic waste products from around the globe. The scrapyard is also …
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