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Collège et Lycée Raponda Walker
Location
Map
Port-Gentil

Gabon
Information
TypeRoman Catholic school
Established1930 (94 years ago) (1930)
FounderFather René Lefèbre
GradesKG1 – 12
Gender • Boys only (establishment to mid 1960s)
 • Mixed (after mid 1960s)
Number of students1,005[1]
Websiterapondawalker.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 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.[clarification needed]

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

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ^ "School SEED network"[permanent dead link]. Retrieved 11 August 2008.
  2. ^ a b LFM: "Social Sciences and Missions". December 2006. Retrieved 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 Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, GabonEco, 30 June 2007, transalation. Retrieved 11 August 2008.


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