Collège et Lycée Raponda Walker is a private Catholic primary and secondary school, located in Port-Gentil, the second largest city in Gabon.
Since 1975 it has been named for André Raponda Walker, a writer and the first Catholic priest in Gabon.
[2] The school was started in 1930 in the grounds of the new church of St. Louis by Father René Lefèbre.
[3] In 1949, the school was taken over by the Brothers of St. Gabriel, but it was not until 1965 that a section for girls was introduced.
[clarification needed] In 1975, the school took on its existing name which is in honour of the first Gabonese person to be ordained as a catholic priest.