Charity Akoshiwo Tornyewonya Zormelo, subsequently Mrs Fiawoo (1904, Keta – 14 October 1945) was the first woman graduate from the Gold Coast, and the first woman from English-speaking West Africa to earn a B. S. degree.
His mother hailed from Atiavi, near Keta, in the Volta Region and his father was from Ahenema Kokoben, that is located in the Ashanti Region.
The college changed its name to Zion College and relocated to Keta; Fiawoo remained chairman of the college's Board of Governors from 1954 until his death in 1969.
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Returning to the Gold Coast in November 1933, Fiawoo was appointed a Superintendent of the AME Zion Church in East Gold Coast, and General Manager of the Zion Education Unit at Keta.
Seth Anthony started his elementary education at the Bremen Mission School at Keta also in the Volta Region of Ghana in 1920.
It was filmed in 1950 and 1951 in Accra, Kedze and Keta, with a non-professional cast, and edited in London.
Mrs. Victoria Ama Zormelo-Gorleku (born 14 September 1907, Keta) was the first woman Prisons Officer in Ghana, and the first ordained woman priest in any of the established Mission Churches in Ghana.
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Having lost her husband when five months pregnant, she had no choice but to return to her family at Keta, where she gave birth to her first child Alberta Olivia Gorleku.
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He was the first to describe many previously unknown species from remote parts of the globe, such as the Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), the Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) from the Kamchatka River in Siberia, and the curimatá-pacú (Prochilodus marggravii) from the São Francisco River in Brazil.