Collège et Lycée Raponda Walker

Collège et Lycée Raponda Walker
Collège et Lycée Raponda Walker
Location
Port-Gentil
Gabon
Information
Established 1930
Grades KG1 - 12
Number of students 1005[1]
Website http://rapondawalker.free.fr

Collège et Lycée Raponda Walker is in Port-Gentil, the second largest city in Gabon. The school has just over a thousand pupils. Since 1975 it has been named for André Raponda Walker, a famous writer and the first Catholic priest in Gabon.[2]

History

The school was started in 1930 in the grounds of the new church of St. Louis by Father René Lefèbre. (The church had only been built in 1927). The school was named then after the church.[3]

In 1949 the school was taken over by the Brothers of St. Gabriel, but it was not until 1965 that a section for girls was introduced.[3] In 1969 the school started mixed classes.

It was in 1975 that the school took on its existing name which was in honour of the first Gabonese person to be ordained as a catholic priest.[2][3]

Alumni

References

  1. ^ School SEED network, accessed 11 August 2008
  2. ^ a b LFM: Social Sciences and Missions, December 2006, accessed 11 August 2008
  3. ^ a b c History of Raponda Walker, School web site.
  4. ^ Sport de haut niveau : La superbe d’un jeune gabonais dans le basket-ball américain, GabonEco, 30 June 2007, transalation, accessed 11 August 2008


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