ADISADEL COLLEGE

Adisadel College, situated on a hill a few miles north of Cape Coast, Ghana, with breathtaking views of the Atlantic ocean, was founded in 1910, under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), an English missionary body tracing its origins to 1701. First called SPG Grammar School by the founders led by Nathaniel Temple Hamlyn, then Anglican Bishop of Accra, it had lost its missionary bindings by the late 1920s when it was renamed St. Nicholas Grammar school, adopting the friendly prelate from Myra, Turkey, as its patron saint and took its current name "Adisadel" from the hill on which it has been situated since 1936 and the little village adjacent to it. "Adisadel," as the story goes, is a corruption or anglicization of "Alice a da" in Fanti, or "Alice is asleep."... THE EARLY YEARS Founded in 1910, Adisadel College, popularly known as Adisco, is the second oldest secondary school in Ghana... A 3-year boarding secondary school for boys (14-18years),..