Background
Charity Zormelo, a Ewe was the daughter of Godfred Nyavor Zormelo, a former North German Mission employee and fishing business proprietor, and Patience Abolitsi Dzokotoe.
Charity Zormelo, a Ewe was the daughter of Godfred Nyavor Zormelo, a former North German Mission employee and fishing business proprietor, and Patience Abolitsi Dzokotoe.
Completing elementary school education at the local African Methodist Episcopal Zion School in 1919, she taught for a while before being sponsored by the local minister to travel to the United States of America in 1926 for further study. In 1930 she graduated from High School in Bordentown, New Jersey and used a $300 scholarship to enrol in Home Economics at Hampton Institute. Active in student societies, she graduated in 1934.
Though recommended to Achimota College, there were no teaching vacancies thereand on returning to the Gold Coast she began teaching at Mmofraturo, a recently founded Wesleyan girls boarding school at Kumasi.
A public lecture on education, delivered in Accra in 1935, was welcomed by the African Morning Post. World World War II disrupted Charity Zormelo"s efforts to pursue study in the United States for a Masters in Education.
Intending to return to the United States to continue study after the war, she died aged forty-one on 14 October 1945.
