Evans Anfom

Emmanuel Evans-Anfom (7 October 1919 – 7 April 2021) was a Ghanaian physician, scholar, university administrator, and public servant who served as the second Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology from 1967 to 1973.

Early life and education A member of the Ga-Dangme people of Accra, Evans-Anfom was born on 7 October 1919 at the Evans family house, High Street, Jamestown, Accra. His mother, Mary Emma Evans, was the daughter of William Timothy Evans, a teacher-catechist of the Basel Mission who taught at Salem School at Osu. He attended the Presbyterian middle boarding school, the Salem School at Osu where the principal at the time, Carl Henry Clerk encouraged him to apply for a Cadbury Scholarship for study at Achimota College instead of going the normal teacher-training route at the Basel Mission-founded Presbyterian teacher training seminary at Akropong, now known as the Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong. He was elected the School Prefect of Achimota School. In January 1939, he enrolled in the inter-preliminary medical course of Science at Achimota. He also studied in a postgraduate diploma course in tropical medicine (DTM&H), completing in 1950. He elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1963.

Medical career After Edinburgh, Evans-Anform worked for a year at the Dewsbury General Infirmary in Leeds, Yorkshire, as a House Physician and House Surgeon and Casualty Officer. He also did medical outreach in the Congo in the 1960s. He served as the President of the West African College of Surgeons from 1969 to 1971. Other changes implemented by the committee included grouping secondary school curricular programs into five categories: Agriculture, General Arts and Science, Business, Technical, and Vocational. He was a given a ceremonial funeral by the Government of Ghana in recognition of his contributions to society.

Awards and honours In 1996, he was adjudged the "Alumnus of the Year" by his alma mater, the University of Edinburgh for "his major contribution to the development of medicine in the Congo and to medical education in Ghana". 1934: Listed on the Honour Board of the Salem School, Osu 1968: Elected president of the Ghana Medical Association "Traditional medicine in Ghana : practice, problems and prospects" "Report of the National Consultative Committee on Education Finance, September 1974-January 1975" "Development and dissemination of appropriate technologies in rural areas : international workshop held in Kumasi, July 1972"