Excerpt from Chapter 11 (pictures below)

As far back as 1954, I had the experience to work in a first class school laboratory as a student in St. Augustine’s College in Ghana, under the supervision of highly qualified science teachers namely:

Rev. Fr. P. Murphy, an Irish priest trained as a chemistry teacher in Dublin;

Mr. J. E. O. Lindsay, a Ghanaian, trained as a Physicist in Manchester, England;

Mr. J. Bucknor, a Ghanaian trained as a Biologist in the University of Ghana, Legon.

I had more experience in working in well equipped laboratories in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi as well as excellent laboratories in The University of Ghana, Legon.

The three laboratories in Opoku Ware Secondary School (physics, biology and chemistry) were really well equipped. Each laboratory had one fully trained assistant.

I was therefore disappointed, when I had to work in a demonstration only laboratory in Smoky Lake, Canada in 1968…

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Tour of Tar Sand Development Area – Fort McMurray, Alberta 1991