REMARKABLE FORTITUDE

Evening Star, Issue 22229, 6 January 1936, Page 1

REMARKABLE FORTITUDE

BSY SEEKING EDUCATION “ He may become a'great man some . day,” the Principal of Achimota College on the Gold Coast .writes of a boy in ragged clothes who knocked at his study door not long ago. When Principal Grace asked . the boy what he wanted he said he had come from Nyasaland, on the eastern side of • Africa, because he wanted to. improve his education :at Achimota. _ That would be something like 3,(MX) miles if he could have travelled as the . crow, flies. , ■ • , He had left his school, and, by work- • ing in a hospital as a dresser for six months, had earned enough money to take him up to Belgian Congo. ■ ; He arrived at the college, which is not far from Accra, on foot, with little on his back, nothing in his pockets, and an empty stomach. The boy was about 16 at the end of his long journey, 18 months after he had set out. _ . Fortunately a friend of Achimota has lately-given *£3oo to pay fees for -poor students, so the plucky lad will have . the education he journeyed so far to fet, and, as his new chief says, he may ecome a great man some day.