' Adisadel-A Triumph of African
Schoolboy Self-help'
The Rt. Rev. Alan J. Knight
Bishop of Guiana, till recently headmaster of the St. Nicholas Grammar
School, Accra, Gold Coast
Two years ago the speaker gave a broadcast talk on how the boys of the St. Nicholas Grammar School at Accra, on the Gold Coast, decided to erect their new school buildings themselves. The old ones were falling down, and they were not disheartened by his telling them that it seemed impossible to raise the F43,000 which new buildings would mean. The sixth-form boys replied by presenting him with a picture showing the building of Buckfast Abbey, and one of them remarked
/that it was built entirely by monks.
' Surely, if we tried, we could build our own school.' They did try, and succeeded. At the end of last year the Governor of the Gold Coast opened the new buildings of ' Adisadel ' as the school is now called, and the story of how this fine piece of self-help on the part of African schoolboys was carried through will be the theme of today's talk.
In June last the Rt.
Rev. Alan J. Knight was consecrated Bishop of Guiana, and the carrying on of the new school will now pass into other hands. But it is fitting that he, as the headmaster and inspirer of his boys, should himself tell the story of what they have accomplished.