Revd Erasmus Awuko Asamoa was an educator and religious leader who advocated the use of African languages in Ghanaian schools. Born in 1901, he studied at the Presbyterian Training College in Akuporon before attending the Basel Missenhaus in Switzerland. He proceeded to the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) where he obtained his MA in moral philosophy in 1954. He became the first African principal of the St Andrews Training College at Mampon (1956-62) and was then appointed principal of the Presbyterian Training College at Akuporon. He was the first African to achieve this distinction. He died in 1965.
ASAMOA, Erasmus
