Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo
Ghanaian minister, playwright and educator
Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo (26 December 1891, in Wasuta – 21 July 1969) was a Ghanaian religious minister, playwright and educator, founder of Zion College, the first secondary school in Ghana's Volta Region.
Life
Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo was the son of John Kpeglo Fiawoo, a self-made businessman who belonged to the royal family of the Awadada Stool of the Anlo state, and his wife Maria Dzatugbui Dadzehoe Agbodzi. Initially discouraged from joining the ministry, he entered commerce with a brother. After visiting Freetown in 1920, he began improving his education with correspondence courses. In 1928 he travelled to the United States and studied at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. In five years he gained a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Bachelor of Divinity degree, a Master of Theology degree and a certificate in education. While a student, he also wrote his first Ewe drama, Toko Atolia in 1932, which won a prize from the International Institute of African Languages and Culture in London. In 1933 he was ordained an AME Zion Church minister at Gloversville, New York.
Returning to the Gold Coast in November 1933, Fiawoo was appointed a Superintendent of the AME Zion Church in East Gold Coast, and General Manager of the Zion Education Unit at Keta. After co-founding the Gold Coast People's College at Adidome, he set about founding a new private secondary school in Anloga, the first secondary school in the Volta Region.
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