General News of Monday, 5 August 2024

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1978: The unheard story of how 92 of 103 girls at the Akropong School of Blind were pregnant

The girls are all said to have been impregnated while at the school | File photo The girls are all said to have been impregnated while at the school | File photo

The biggest mystery about this story is the fact that it was it has not been properly established how these girls all got pregnant while at the Akropong School for the Blind.

It must be stated, though, that both the girls and the boys at the school shared the same room, with only a partition separating both of them.

And this happened in 1978, as was captured in a newspaper publication and shared recently by historian and veteran broadcaster, Charles Amankwa-Ampofo via his TikTok.

With the headline, “A school of 92 pregnant girls,” Amankwa-Ampofo retold the story and the mystery behind it.

According to him, this tally of pregnant girls at the school was recorded within a decade, with no explanations as to who were the men behind the pregnancies.

“It was the School of the Blind and the thing is that they all slept in the same place with the boys and only separated by a partition… this was in 1978. There was a man who was a regional commissioner, called SH Anansi. So, he went on a tour of the school and there was a man called Dzato, who was the principal, who told him that in the last ten years, there had been 92 girls who got pregnant.

“So, the Anansi man told them that he would make sure he corrected that trend… those who got them pregnant was a mystery because the teachers asked some of the girls and they were able to say who the boys were, while others could not tell,” he narrated.

And from the copy of the newspaper report that he had in his possession, it read;

“Ninety-two of 103 girls admitted to the School for the Blind at Akropong-Akwapim during the past decade were impregnated by their male schoolmates, thus ending their education prematurely,” the lede of the story, written by Elvis D. Aryeh, from Akropong, said.

See a copy of the newspaper story, as well as the video in which Amankwa-Ampofo shared the story below:



@ghanas.archives #viraltiktok #fypシ #ghanahistory #viralvideos #ghviral #ghtrends #fyppppppppppppppppppppppp #ghanatiktok🇬🇭 #ghviral ♬ original sound - Amankwa-Ampofo's archives


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