for children who showed some aptitude but whose parents who could not afford to send their children to the existing schools of the day in his country, Ghana. He is also remembered as one of the initiators of the first privately founded school in Gold Coast and not only so but for the first time in the then Gold Coast, a school had been founded without the help of any church group or denomination. The Konuah-Halm-Addo-Alema-Awuletey Lectures is held annually in joint honour of him. References Heads of schools in Ghana Ghanaian educators Fourah Bay College alumni Ga-Adangbe people People from Accra Bruce family of Ghana 1904 births 1996 deaths