Accra, July 25,GNA - The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) has elected seven more eminent and internationally acknowledged scholars as fellows.

This brings the number of fellows to 85, with 75 resident in Ghana and 10 resident abroad.

Dr Theophilus Aquinas Ossei-Anto (Ed Correct), Administrative Secretary of the Academy in a signed statement gave their names as Prof Naana Jane Opuku-Agyemang, Dean of Graduate Studies University of Cape Coast; Prof Albert Kodzo Fiadjoe, Former Head of the Faculty of Law University of West Indies, Barbados and Prof Takyiwaa Manuh, Director of the Institute of African Studies.

The elected also included Dr Eugenia Date-Bah, Former Director of Crisis Response and Reconstruction Programme ILO, Geneva and Prof Francis Agbodeka, Former Head of the Department of History University of Cape Coast.

The rest are Prof John Bonaventure Kubongpwa Kaburise, Vice- Chancellor of University for Development Studies and Prof Ralph Mills-Tettey, Registrar of the Architects Registration Council of Ghana.

The statement said the Academy had over the years evolved to become a major independent think-tank that used its platform to raise critical issues of contemporary relevance to all sectors of the Ghanaian life.

Its mission is to encourage the creation, acquisition, dissemination and utilization of knowledge for development through the promotion of learning.