Sacred Heart College (abbreviated as SAHECO) is a private Catholic secondary boarding school for boys, located in Mankon, Northwest Region of Cameroon.
[4] Motivated by the need to cater for students from Bamenda who passed the entrance examination into Saint Joseph's College, Sasse located hundreds of kilometres away, Fr Thomas Mulligan put together the first cohort of 30 boys at R.C.M Big Mankon due to the lack of appropriate infrastructure.
[5] This single-sex boarding school which was officially inaugurated on 8 July 1965 by His Excellency Augustine Ngom Jua, at the time Prime Minister of West Cameroon, later metamorphosed into a full-fleshed secondary education institute in 1978 with the creation of a second Cycle.
[7] The principal mission of SHESA is promoting the alma mater's teachings, which include academic excellence, fraternity, civil responsibility, service, god-fearing, and morally upright attitude.
[9] On 18 September 2017, a dormitory got burned in what was suspected to be an arson attack perpetrated by separatist fighters due to the ongoing Anglophone Crisis,[10] prompting the mobilization of ex-students and well-wishers who quickly raised funds for the reconstruction of the damaged building.
The celebrations on campus commenced with Holy Mass officiated by Christian Cardinal Tumi and Archbishop Cornelius Fontem Esua in the presence of Fon Angwafo III of Mankon, who 50 years ago offered land for the construction of this college, state dignitaries, parents, students, members of staff, ex-students and well-wishers.