His full name was given as James Emman Kodwo Mensa Otsiwadu Humamfunsam Kwegyir Aggrey.

On 10 July 1898, he agreed, and left the Gold Coast for the United States, where he settled in Salisbury, North Carolina, and attended Livingstone College.

He studied a variety of subjects at the university, including chemistry, physics, logic, economics and politics.

Aggrey was very talented at languages and was said to have spoken (besides English) French, German, Ancient and Modern Greek, and Latin.

Aggrey accepted and visited what are now ten different countries in Africa, where he collected and analyzed education data.

In Ghana, Aggrey delivered a lecture that persuaded Governor Guggisberg that Achimota College should be co-educational: "The surest way to keep people down is to educate the men and neglect the women.

"In South Africa, Aggrey delivered a lecture that used the keys of the piano as an image of racial harmony: "I don't care what you know; show me what you can do.

[4] In 1924, Aggrey was appointed by the Gold Coast governor Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg as the First Vice Principal of Achimota College in Accra.

In May 1927, he returned to the United States, and in July admitted to a hospital in Harlem, New York, where he died later that month.

[5] Freeman Aggrey House in his alma mater, Mfantsipim School, was named after him and Methodist priest, Rev.

"[9]) In 1947, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church took over the management of a private school founded by Rev.