Ghana National College
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Cape Coast, Menyamawu Hills Ghana 
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| School type | Government funded, Co-educational boarding/ Residential |
| Motto | Pro Patria |
| Established | 20 July 1948 |
| Founder | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Status | Active |
| Category | A |
| Authorizer | Ministry of Education (Ghana) |
| Headmaster | Mrs Juliana Owusu-Ansah |
| Faculty | 5 |
| Grades | Form 1 (10th grade) – Form 3 (12th grade) |
| Gender | Co-ed (Boys/Girls) |
| Age | 12 to 18 |
| Enrollment | 1300 |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Houses | 4 Male, 8 Female |
| Color(s) | Red,Yellow and Green |
| School color(s) | Maroon, green and cream |
| Mascot | Nana |
| Nickname | Nashnal |
| Accreditation | Ghana Education Service |
| National ranking | Top 20 |
| Yearbook | Nananom magazine |
| Affiliation | None |
| Alumni | Ghana National Past Students Association (NANANOM) |
| School anthem | The Joys of Ghanacoll |
| Website | www |
Ghana National College is a senior high school in Cape Coast, Ghana. It is rated as one of the country's top schools.
It was founded on 20 July 1948, staffed by dismissed teachers from St Augustine's College and Mfantsipim School. The college was founded by the first Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah using his own funds, for eight students who had been expelled by the British colonial administration from St Augustine's College. The expulsion resulted from a protest march, held in solidarity with Nkrumah, who was then imprisoned. Ghana National College was established on Friday, 16 July 1948, in Cape Coast, during a period of agitation for self-government in the then Gold Coast. Ironically it was named Ghana National College nine years before The Gold Coast achieved independence in 1957, and the country was named Ghana.
28 February 1948 Tragedy at Christiansborg Castle and the shooting of ex-servicemen from the war for demonstrating for benefits blamed on Kwame Nkrumah for his radical tendencies and subsequently detained with six of his cohorts, Dr J. B. Danquah, Mr Edward Akufo-Addo, Mr William Ofori Atta, Mr Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey, and Mr Ebenezer Ako-Adjei.
15 March 1948 Student protests in Cape Coast, in solidarity with the detained UGCC executives, result in the expulsion of 150 students from St Augustine's College and Mfantsipim School on the recommendation of the Quashie-Idun Commission charged with investigation into the student unrest. The appointments of four teachers, three from St. Augustine's College and one from Mfantsipim School, are also revoked. The teachers are Mr Kwesi Plange, Mr J. J. Mensah-Kane, Mr H. P. Nelson and Mr H. W. K. Sackeyfio (Mfantsipim).
1 July 1948 Kwame Nkrumah, Secretary of the UGCC invites the above-mentioned teachers to his office in Saltpond and commissions Kojo Botsio to evaluate plans for starting a new school.
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