Achimota School - Old Achimotan Association

Old Achimotan Association

The Old Achimotan Association is the umbrella alumni organization for past students of Achimota School, Ghana. The OAA authorizes the formation of regional, branch and year groups to carry out its objectives. Members of the OAA are known as "Akoras".

• History: The OAA was started in 1929 by the first Principal of the then Prince of Wales College, Rev. Alec G. Fraser, whose son Sandy Fraser, then a member of Achimota School’s staff, was the first organizing secretary. Sandy spent his vacations touring towns and villages where Old Achimotans were working in order to explain the aims and objectives of the OAA. The OAA’s first Annual General Meeting was held at the school on December 23, 1930, and then once a year thereafter. The participants spent three or four days on the school’s campus.

• Constitution: The OAA is governed by a constitution, whose principal objective is "the formation of a bond of union between Old Achimotans and the School to promote the maintenance of their interest in the School and their willingness to assist in its welfare, and to promote the ideals for which Achimota was founded".

• National Executive Committee: The OAA's affairs and funds are managed by a National Executive Committee. The Committee consists of three officers of the Association, two ex-officio officers, the immediate past President of the Association and eight other members. The National Executive Committee is elected biennially at an Annual General Meeting. The OAA Alumni Office assists the National Executive Committee in its work.