Emmanuel Evans-Anfom was a Ghanaian physician, scholar, university administrator, and public servant who served as the second Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology from 1967 to 1973.
29 Facts About Emmanuel Evans-Anfom
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom attended the Presbyterian middle boarding school, the Salem School at Osu where the principal at the time, Carl Henry Clerk encouraged him to apply for a Cadbury Scholarship for study at Achimota College instead of going the normal teacher-training route at the Basel Mission-founded Presbyterian teacher training seminary at Akropong, now known as the Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom was elected the School Prefect of Achimota School.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom studied in a postgraduate diploma course in tropical medicine, completing in 1950.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1963.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom captained the Achimota School Hockey XI, the Combined Scottish Universities Hockey XI, and was club captain of Edinburgh University Men's Hockey Club.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom worked in various hospitals in the government medical system: Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dunkwa-On-Offin Government Hospital, Tarkwa Government Hospital, Kumasi Central Hospital, Tamale Government Hospital and Effia Nkwanta Hospital in Sekondi.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom did medical outreach in the Congo in the 1960s.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom acted as the Chief Medical Administrator at the medical school.
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In 1958, Emmanuel Evans-Anfom co-founded the Ghana Medical Association together with Drs.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom later served as president of the association from 1968 to 1970.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom served as the President of the West African College of Surgeons from 1969 to 1971.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom was elected the Chairman of the Medical and Dental Council in 1979.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom was a founding Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 1986.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom was elected a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom was the Chairman of the Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom served as the second Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology from 1967 to 1973.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom chaired a myriad of committees, boards and missions, both locally and on the international scene in Africa, Europe and North America.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom served concurrently as the Commissioner of Education and Culture and Commissioner for Health under the military government of the Jerry John Rawlings-led Armed Forces Revolutionary Council in the late 1970s.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom was a member of the Council of State in the Hilla Limann government from 1979 to 1981.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom was president of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and chairman of the West African Examinations Council.
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Changes under the Emmanuel Evans-Anfom Committee included establishing a nine-year basic education consisting of primary school and junior secondary school, followed by a newly established senior secondary school education ; requiring successful passage of examinations for the end of both secondary school sequences; and changing the emphasis of education from strictly academic to include vocational, technical and practical training.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom had four children with his first wife Leonora Francetta Evans, a West Indian American of Bahamian descent, who he wedded on 13 December 1952 in Accra.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom was a founding member and president of the Gold Coast and Ghana Hockey Associations in 1950 and 1957 respectively.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom captained the Gold Coast and Ghana National Hockey Teams.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom served as a Presbyter and Senior Presbyter of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Osu, where he was a congregant.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom served as Chairman, Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture and President of the Ghana Boys Brigade.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom died on 7 April 2021 in Accra, aged 101 years.
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Emmanuel Evans-Anfom was a given a ceremonial funeral by the Government of Ghana in recognition of his contributions to society.