Shama, Ghana is home to the gravesite of which teacher at the universities of Halle and Jena?
Shama, Ghana Shama or Shema is a town with a fishing village, and is the capital of Shama district, a district in the Western Region of Ghana. The town lies about 20 km east of Sekondi-Takoradi, on the mouth of the Pra River. The town is home to Fort San Sebastian, in whose graveyard philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first African known to have attended a European university, is interred.
George C. Clerk George Carver Clerk (born 29 July 1931) is a Ghanaian botanist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Ghana, Legon whose research focused on the ecology and the pathology of plant diseases (phytopathology), indigenous to Ghana and West Africa. Clerk, along with his academic contemporary Ebenezer Laing, is one of Ghana's earliest practitioners of botany as a scientific discipline, in addition to being a pioneering plant pathologist in West Africa. G. C. Clerk was also inducted as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973.