The mission of Ashesi is to educate ethical, entrepreneurial leaders in Africa. For tweets on campus life, see:
#atAshesi
. For alumni stories see:
#AshesiAlumni
For Beyonce's new Disney+ film "Black is King", Ashesi alum David Boanuh '19 served as Director of Photography for scenes shot in Ghana, helping bring unique representations of Africa to the film described as a "a celebratory memoir for the world on the Black experience."
In 2017, Christopher Anamalia who put up a stellar
@NSMQGhana
performance for
@AquinasSHS
got accepted into Ashesi on a full
@MastercardFdn
scholarship. Six years later, he is working at Apple as an Electrical Engineer. Watch the full video:
#AshesiAlumni
We have been informed about this very detailed “our day” petition, and we love it! When they are ready, we’ll give him and his class a tour at Ashesi and do our best to convince
@PatrickAwuahJr
to meet with them!
In 2019, Petra Abosi, a sophomore, led the sign language translation for the entire Commencement Ceremony. Today, she does the same for our ceremony but as an Ashesi graduand. Congrats Petra!
#Ashesi2022
#AshesiGrad
Today, we are celebrating Ashesi's class of 2022.🎓🎓 Follow this thread for updates as we share stories about this class's resilient women and men.
#Ashesi2022
#AshesiGrad
Ashesi ranked 1st in Ghana, 9th in Africa, and among the world's top 400 universities, in the new 2020
@timeshighered
University Impact Rankings. The Rankings measure actions taken by universities to advance the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
Under Ashesi’s Honour Code, exams on campus have no supervisors. Students pledge to hold themselves to account; to not cheat or tolerate those who do. The Code encourages students to own their ethical posture, and to do the right thing even when no one is watching.
#atAshesi
#Ashesi
has been ranked No.1 in Ghana in the 2022 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. Ashesi was also ranked 7th in Africa and among the world's top 300, with
@KNUSTGH
being the only other Ghanaian University in the top 300 and among Africa's top 10:
Having seen his parents’ farm shut down due to low farmhand skill, Stephan Ofosuhene’19 developed an artificial intelligence powered hydroponic farming unit that requires little intervention from a farmer:
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#Ashesi2019
#AshesiGrad
We believe in Ashesi's graduates and their capabilities. But as an employer, and in our admissions process, our experience teaches us that strong recruits usually come through a process that gives all applicants a fair chance to prove themselves regardless of their alma mater.
For their Introductory Engineering class first-year students
#atAshesi
built delivery drones from scratch, with claws and GPS, to support asset retrieval from remote locations. The project was done over 10 weeks, and all teams successfully flew their drones!
#AshesiStudents
When Maxwell '18 arrived at Ashesi from Nandom Senior High as a first-year student, he had never used a computer before. By his graduation, he had become a prolific Artificial Intelligence researcher, earning himself a PhD in Computer Science position at
@Dartmouth
.
#AshesiAlumni
"Wakanda will no longer watch from the shadows. We cannot. We must not. We will work to be an example of how we as brothers and sisters on this earth should treat each other. [...] We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe."
#RIPChadBoseman
For everyone who has asked, we do not have cameras in our classrooms. The Ashesi Honour Code gives students 100% ownership for ensuring that there is no cheating during an exam.
#atAshesi
A recipient of Ashesi's highest award to a student, Teni's strong drive to become a college graduate someday propelled her to make some tough choices, including working as a kayayo to pay her way through high school. Join her on
@Joy997FM
right now:
Congratulations to Muslims around the world for coming to the end of their fast, and Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating, especially in our graduating Class of 2020!
Do pass this on
#AshesiStudents
: our I.T Office is providing 10GB monthly data bundles to all students who need it for our switch to online classes. Tell us where to send your data bundle using this form:
Last Wednesday, Joseph Awuah Darko donated $20,000 to Ashesi as a token of appreciation for the entrepreneurial support that helped him to jumpstart his career in the creative arts.
#atAshesi
Here’s one for Ashesi students: you can now get 50% discounts on Apple Music and free access to Apple TV+ for a year by using your university email ID to verify that you are a student.
#AshesiStudents
.
@masterclass
is partnering with Ashesi to provide all members of our community free all-access passes to their entire platform! From basketball and film, to cooking and writing classes, 2020 is going to be a year of more great learning
#atAshesi
!
A standing ovation for Ashesi student Petra, who led a sign language translation for the entire 2019 Commencement Ceremony!
#atAshesi
#Ashei2019
#AshesiGrad
The Ashesi Scholarship, Leadership & Citizenship award is presented each year to three graduates who have exemplified the University’s core values. The first recipient from the Class of 2021’s Commencement last weekend was Tamisha Segbefia ’21.
#Ashesi2021
#AshesiGrad
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In 2022,
#AshesiAlumni
Aba left banking to start Timeless by Aba, a chocolate confectionery business aiming to process cocoa into high-quality products locally. Now, with a growing customer base, Aba aims to take her brand worldwide. Watch her story here:
We're celebrating alumni couples today, sharing how they found love
#atAshesi
.
How it started: Akosua '10 needed an accomplice to pull a prank on a friend, and Kojo '10 offered to help. Years after the first-year prank, they're married and raising a lovely family!
#AshesiAlumni
#Ashesi2022
, even the basest of despair did not extinguish your little candle of hope. You have been resilient and supportive of one another, and you have been at your finest. The deadlines? Of course, we missed them! Who never miss deadline hands in the air. No hands!- Karl ‘22
96% of Ashesi’s Class of 2020 received placement offers, or started business, within six months of completing national service. The results present a robust set of outcomes for a class that graduated at the height of COVID-19.
Read more:
#AshesiAlumni
Growing up, Pinamang Genfi had always wanted to run her own business. After Ashesi, she raised the bar: starting two; a gift concierge
@MarshmallowGH
and a fashion line
@taagghana
Read more==>
#AshesiAlumni
Inspired by her experiences growing up with asthma, Eyram '22 built a portable monitoring device and dosage counter to help asthmatic children better recognise triggers in the environment and improve their use of inhalers. Read=>
#Ashesi2022
#AshesiGrad
Celebrating Ashesi students Ayeyi, Nazik, and Betsy, who are representing Ghana in the 2021 L'Oreal
#Brandstorm
competition. Their submission makes a case for using AR games to engage customers. To read more and vote for them, search for “Pow Swoosh” here:
Isaac Gyamfi '24 and Daniel Gakpetor '24 led the Presby Boys Senior High School to its record sixth
@NSMQGhana
trophy in 2020. As Engineering students at Ashesi, they reflect on the lessons learned and their goals for the future. -
#Ashesi2024
Looks like Barcelona is joining Ashesi's Class of 2019 in signing out today; though our students seem a lot more excited than the team at Anfield.
Video by Ashesi senior David '19; song by Ashesi senior, Gafar '19.
#Ashesi2019
#atAshesi
#AshesiGrad
Meet our new Head of Humanities & Social Sciences, Dr Mensa-Bonsu. Before joining Ashesi, she was a fellow at the London School of Economics, where she taught Public Law. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Law from the
@UniofOxford
. Watch the full video:
We are excited to share that Ashesi and ETH Zürich in Switzerland will be partnering to launch a Master's programme in Mechatronics Engineering that will be taught in Ghana by faculty of both universities:
#atAshesi
Exactly 18 years ago, some 30 students gathered in one building for Ashesi's first class.
Today, our community of over 2500 students and alumni, and many faculty, staff and donors have helped make Ashesi one of Africa's finest universities.
Happy Anniversary to us.
#atAshesi
What a week it’s been on campus, as the Ashesi Student Council celebrates students and student life! Today’s theme was on friendships and teamwork (with a ton of lookalikes!) and was powered by
@MaltaGhana
!
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#AshesiStudents
When Matilda's first son Chris Anamalia ‘21 got accepted into Ashesi from St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School, she could not have imagined how much his experience would change her family. Six years later, she reflects on the journey.
Watch:
#atAshesi
Three generations of Ashesi graduates; one family. A big shoutout to the Agyeman-Prempeh family for “representing” at their third time Commencement Ceremony! Set a reminder for the 11.00am GMT livestream here:
#TeamAshesi
#AshesiGrad
#Ashesi2021
Why buy a drone when you can 3D print parts and build one at Ashesi? Shoutout to student Robert ‘20, for the successful test flight of his self-built drone!
#atAshesi
#AshesiStudents
A Bioengineering student research team
#atAshesi
, including visiting students from
@KNUSTGH
, designed a biosensor for detecting gold in soil - to support small-scale miners - that won a silver medal at a genetic engineering competition in Paris. Read more:
Proud mother, Lucy Omari, picked up the Presidential Award, the highest honor a student can receive
#atAshesi
, on behalf of her son, Derick Omari, who is currently in the UK, selected as a of recipient for the Queen Young Leaders award.
#AshesiGrad
#Ashesi2018
Massive, massive congratulations to alum, Derick Omari, on being named an
@MTNGhana
Hero of Change for his work in helping make tech more accessible to the visually impaired, handicapped and other marginalized groups in Ghana.
#AshesiAlumni
#MTNHeroes19
#WeDey4U
📷
@MTNGhana
A few days after Ashesi paused campus activity, Dean of Students Abdul learned of a student who needed help. He was living in a kiosk in Accra, and the owner had asked him to leave. That same day, the Student Services team at Ashesi found him a home. -
In Ghana, Ashesi graduate Derick Omari’s mother received the President’s award on his behalf; while in the UK, he received the Queen’s Young Leaders Award from H.M Queen Elizabeth II. A mother and son double-team. -
#Ashesi2018
#AshesiGrad
#AshesiAlumni
Now that 280-character tweets are here: The mission of Ashesi is to educate ethical, entrepreneurial leaders in Africa; to cultivate within our students the critical thinking skills, the concern for others and the courage it will take to transform the continent.
After Mfantsipim High School, Ibrahim Abdullah '18 (middle) applied for a MasterCard Foundation Scholarship at Ashesi. Now a Software Engineer at Microsoft in Canada, he reflects on his journey and how Ashesi prepared him for the world. -->
It's a wrap! Here's to the proud parents and all the awww moments at today's commencement. Congratulations, Class of 2022! You made it!
#Ashesi2022
#AshesiGrad
Congratulations to alum, Kofi Genfi, for making the
@forbesafrica
Under 30 list, for his work in developing artificial intelligence through his startup:
#AshesiAlumni
Our official last night for 2019, on this small city on a hill, as campus closes down for the holiday season today. If you visited Ashesi this year, what did you like most about us?
#atAshesi
"The private sector is said to be the engine of economic growth, but the public sector is the oil for that engine. And when the oil is dirty, the engine cannot work efficiently. This is why we must all be interested in building an effective public sector."
During a gap year after high school, Dave'25 and his friend built a Taxi-hailing app for auto-rickshaws popularly known as "kambuu" in the Upper West Region. In his first-semester
#atAshesi
, he applied for funding towards launching Kambuu. Read more:
At Ashesi, Erin Owusu's love for football blossomed. She became the first female President of the Ashesi Football Association (AFA). During her tenure, Erin helped launch the Ashesi women's league. Kudus Erin, for being a trailblazer.
#Ashesi2022
#AshesiGrad
With faculty support, final year students
#atAshesi
have mostly been able to complete their semester online. As a result, seniors will not be returning to campus following the partial reopening of schools by the Government of Ghana. (1/5)
For Foster, who once sold used clothes with his parents in Ghana's Kantamanto, a university education seemed beyond his reach. Thanks to a scholarship to attend Ashesi, the former Accra Academy student became the first in his family to attend university.
#AshesiAlumni
On 4th March, 2002, 17 years ago today, Ashesi started its first class in a rented building in Labone. Thank you for being a part of our progress since then, and for helping share the Ashesi story with the world. Share what Ashesi means to you, with
#AshesiAt17
.
This evening the Ashesi community celebrated Frances Awuah-Kyerematen, Assoc. Director of Student Life & Engagement. Frances passed away from COVID-19 complications before the start of our January 2021 semester. Read tributes, and leave one for her, here:
"Along the way we failed, we fell, we feared, that maybe this wouldn't come. But in the moments when there was nothing left to hold unto, we held on to each other, and together we made it. This is our story"
_ Class Speaker, Jean Quarcoopome.
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#AshesiGrad
#Ashesi2019
Mary Wamaitha from Kenya will be graduating Magna Cum Laude today. She is also the first person in her extended family to attend university! Congrats Wamaitha. All the best in the next phase of your journey.
#Ashesi2022
#AshesiGrad
Congrats to Tobias Woode and John Ayomah for being elected as President and Vice President of the Ashesi Student Council; and to Abigail Asafo and Fiifi Bentil for being elected as Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of the Judicial & Electoral Council.
#AshesiStudents
#atAshesi
Melinawo Vowotor '20 has always been fascinated by the mechanics of aircrafts. For his final year project, he designed a remote-controlled aircraft prototype for food delivery.
#AshesiGrad
#Ashesi2020
. (1/2) 📸Asomani '20
Having worked as a kayayo to pay her way through high school Teni Agana was admitted to Ashesi in 2014. This past weekend, she received the President's award at her graduation, for exemplary scholarship, leadership & citizenship. Join her on
@Joy997FM
at 7.45am, to hear her story
Whiles at Ashesi, Ewuresi Folson started her business, RF active.
@rfactive_
is an athleisure sportswear brand. The brand creates fashionable yet comfortable athleisurewear perfect for working out and day-to-day wear for Ghanaian women.
#Ashesi2022
#AshesiGrad
"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."- Kofi Annan.
The second recipient of the Scholarship, Leadership &. Citizenship award at
#Ashesi2020
's Commencement, Zoe Tagboto '20 from Ghana (🇬🇭), also graduated Summa Cum Laude (GPA of 3.85+ out of 4.00) and was a recognised leader in Computer Science.
Excited to be teaming up with Facebook’s Recruitment Team to prepare students
#atAshesi
for internships and careers with the platform’s Tech and Engineering teams! Here's to helping young people build global careers!
#atAshesi