(humanities): 2009 - 2011 - University of Ghana

6. AGGREY-FRASER-GUGGISBERG
MEMORIAL LECTURES
The Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectures were instituted in 1957 to commemorate
the contribution made to the founding of Achimota College and the advancement of education,
particularly higher education, in Ghana. The Lectures, a series of five given on five
consecutive days, have become a great event to which the Ghanaian public looks forward. It
is, indeed, the most prestigious lecture series and the high-point of the intellectual calendar of
the country. It has been the practice to leave the lecturer free to choose a THEME and the
TOPICS for the lecture. The list of Memorial Lecturers and the subjects covered, so far, are:
Lady Robert Jackson - A background to World Affairs
(Barbara Ward) (1957) (Five Ideas That Changed the World)
Sir Jajachamaraja - Traditions, Ideals and Values in
Wadiyar Bahadur (1960) the Atomic Age
Sir Julian Huxley (1961) - Evolutionary Destiny and Africa
Davidson Nicol (1963) - Africa - A Subjective View
Professor Dorothy Crawfoot
Hodgkin, OM (1965) - Crystallography and Medicine
Professor Sir Arthur Lewis (1968) - Some Aspects of Economic Development
Professor Sir Mark Oliphant (1969) - Science and Mankind
Professor Clark Kerr (1970) - Students and Society
Lord John Todd (1971) - Some Problems of the Technological Society
Robert K.A. Gardiner (1972) - The Basis for Change and Development in Ghana
Professor Raymond Aron (1973) - The World Crisis in Education
Saburo Okita (1974) - Lessons from Japanese Experience in
Economic Development
Professor T.O. Elias (1975) - Judicial Process in Commonwealth Africa
Dr. Claude T. Bissell (1976) - Humanities in the Universities
Professor Ralf Dahrendorf (1978) - The New World Order? Problems and Prospects
of International Relations in the 1980s
Professor K. Onwuka Dike (1979) - Factors in West African History
Sir Ieuan Maddock (1980) - Interaction of Technology with Society
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan (1981) - Agricultural Growth and Human Welfare
Professor Edem Kodjo (1985) - Africa Today
K.K. Dadzie (1990) - The Outlook for Development in the 1990s
L.K.H. Goma (1991) - The Hard Road to the Transformation of Africa
Professor F.T. Sai (1994) - Adam, Eve and the Serpent
Professor Ivor Wilks (1995) - One Nation, Many Histories Ghana Past and Present
Professor Michael Gibbons (1999) - Science Goes Beyond the Market.
Professor Ali A. Mazrui (2001) - Nkrumah’s Consciencism and Africa’s Triple
Heritage: Indigenous, Islamic & Westernizing Forces
Dr. Kwame Anyane-Yeboah (2004) - “Did Adam and Eve Really Live in the Garden of
Eden? The Genetic Connection”
Professor Hans Van Ginkel (2005) - “Globalization, Higher Education and
Sustainable Development”
H.E. Mary Robinson(2006) - “Human Rights and Development”
Right Honourable Paul Boateng (2007) - The Black Star Rising – Some Challenges for Ghana
and Africa in the 21 st Century.
James Wolfensen (2008) - Our Changing World: Will the 21 st Century
be the Global Century?
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