LaBone Senior Secondary School was founded in 1949 by:

Rev. Dr. Martei Markwei, Mr. Alpheus k. A. Johnson
Dr. John Spencer Bilson, Mr. Joseph Andoh-Kesson
Dr. Ebenezer Ako Adjei, Mr. Daniel A. K. Sowah
Mr. Okwei Mensah

LaBone is one of the first class senior secondary schools in Ghana. It’s a mixed school of boarders and day students with about 2,100 students and 85 teaching and non–teaching staff. The students are 40% boys and 60% girls. There is a computer lab which is open for all students.

The school undertakes the following courses:

• Business: Business Accounting & Business Secretariat
• Science
• Visual Arts
• General Arts
• Home Economics

The school’s motto is “primus semper aurora,” Latin for “always first at dawn.” LaBone is known to be the neatest school in Accra. It’s also known to be a business school because it produce more business students for the final examination of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC).

Thank you to Maxwell Appiah-Twum and Headmistress Joyce Ossei Agyekum for facilitating the Ananse Project at LaBone!