Ghana’s premier university, the University of Ghana, could potentially be renamed after Joseph Boakye (J.B.) Danquah, according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Speaking during the 75th Anniversary Thanksgiving Service of the university, President Akufo-Addo praised Danquah’s pivotal role in establishing the institution and suggested that such a renaming would be fitting.
“It will be wholly appropriate and not at all far-fetched, to describe Joseph Boakye Dankwa as the founder of this university,” Mr Akufo-Addo asserted.
He said it is “a fact, which, on the 75th-anniversary of its existence, should be vividly recalled by all of us who have been and are beneficiaries of his work”.
“Indeed, in many other jurisdictions where there is less heat in their politics and more attachment to the fact of historical record, it would not have been out of place to have this university named after him,” the president observed, hinting: “Who knows, one day it may well happen.”
Source: classfmonline.com
