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The trail of scholarship, Dr. Alfred C. Bannerman

E. Ablorh-Odjidja
March 3, 2021


I don't know about what is happening in our secondary schools of today in Ghana.  But time was when scholarship meant a lot.  When the best and brightest among the youth struggled for recognition and scholarships in all kinds of positive ways.

Those were the days when students from foreign countries competed to be part of student exchange programs worldwide, and the best got chosen for foreign exchange student’s sojourns.

Such was the case for Dr. Alfred Clayton Bannerman when he was barely 18 years old at Prempeh College, Kumasi, Ghana.  He was awarded a scholarship to participate in a foreign student exchange program and came to the US in the year 1956.,

Dr. Alfred Bannerman, now 85 years old, formerly a Professor of Neurology at Columbia University, NY, and Director, Neurology, Jamaica Hospital Center, Queens, NY.  He is married to Mrs. M.  Bannerman for over 50 years.

Dr. Bannerman spent most of his adult life in the US.  He is now retired, living the life of a country gentleman in the rural hills of Aburi, Ghana.

At his lovely open palatial home at Aburi, you can hear often Dr. Bannerman calling his wife in a sonorous voice reminiscent of the “Big Ben” - Ma-rrriaaah, on a sentimental whim!  It happens habitually when he wants to locate something in a hurry.

 
 

Even at this late age, the good old doctor has a healthy lust for life and knowledge that extends to many subjects, avid appreciator of jazz music, loves traveling and already much-traveled to all corners of the globe, affable entertainer and raconteur, and of course, never lost a step in his interest in science and medicine.

It is a sight to see him these days starring at the night skies overlooking the Accra plains from his porch at Aburi and calling out the stars by names.

More... Dr. Alfred C. Bannerman at 70.

E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Publisher www.ghanadot.com , Washington, DC, 

March 3, 2021

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