<P> He was born in Chorkor the son of the Kwadwo Kwegyir, a friend of the then master chieftain Amonu IV . In the June 1883, he was baptized in a municipality in the Gold Coast and accepted his Christian first name James . He attended a Methodist school in Cape Coast, where the teachers noted that he was precocious, already studying Greek and Latin, and he subsequently rose to become the school's headmaster . </P> <P> In 1898, at the age of 23, he was selected due to his education to be trained in the United States as a missionary . On July 10, 1898, Aggrey agreed and left the Gold Coast for the United States, where he settled in Salisbury, North Carolina, and attended the Livingstone College . He studied a variety of subjects at the university, including chemistry, physics, logic, economics and politics . In May 1902 he graduated from the university with three academic degrees . Aggrey was very talented in language and was said to have spoken (beside English) French, German, Ancient and Modern Greek, and Latin . </P> <P> In November 1903 he was appointed a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Salisbury . In 1905 he married Rose Douglas, a native of Virginia, with whom he had four children . In the same year he began to teach at Livingstone College . In 1912 he earned his doctorate in theology, and in 1914 followed a doctorate in osteopathy . In the same year he transferred employment to a small municipality to North Carolina . Between 1915 and 1917 Aggrey took up further studies at what is now known as Columbia University, where he studied sociology, psychology and the Japanese language . </P> <P> In 1920 Paul Monroe, a member of the Phelps Stokes Fund offered Aggrey the opportunity to attend a research expedition to Africa to determine which measures were necessary for the improvement of education in Africa . Aggrey accepted and visited what are now ten different countries in Africa, where he collected and analyzed education data . In 1920 he visited Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Gold Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria . In 1921 he visited the Belgian Congo, Angola and South Africa . </P>

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