This article is about Christ the King College in Sierra Leone, for the Christ the King College on the Isle Of Wight see Christ the King College, Isle of Wight

Christ the King College, Isle of Wight

Christ the King College, is a joint Church of England and Catholic college located in Newport on the Isle of Wight. It was created in September 2008 by amalgamating two older schools, Archbishop King Middle School and Trinity Middle School. As such, the school is on two separate campuses, both...

Christ the King College (CKC) is a secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 founded in 1954 in Bo

Bo, Sierra Leone

Bo is the second largest city in Sierra Leone and the largest city in the Southern Province. It lies about 164 miles south-east of Freetown and had a population 149,957 in the 2004 census, with a current estimate is 231,494 . The city serve as the capital and administrative center of Bo District...

, Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...

. The school was founded by the Roman Catholic mission in 1954. CKC primarily serves Sierra Leone, but also has international students from Liberia

Liberia

Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

, Gambia, Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

 and Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

. Several prominent politicians and business have graduated from CKC.

History

CKC was originally built by the Roman Catholic missionaries of the Holy Ghost Order under Reverend Francis Corbet. The original site later became the St Francis primary school.

Notable alumini

Some notable graduates of CKC include

• Solomon Berewa
  Solomon Berewa
  Solomon Ekuma Dominic Berewa was Vice-President of Sierra Leone from May 2002 to September 2007...
  
  
• Charles Margai
  Charles Margai
  Charles Francis Kondo Margai is a Sierra Leonean lawyer and politician. He is the leader of the People's Movement for Democratic Change the third major political party in Sierra Leone, after the big two, the Sierra Leone People's Party and the All People's Congress . He was his party's candidate...
  
  
• Kandeh Yumkella
  Kandeh Yumkella
  Kandeh K. Yumkella is the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization .-Education:* 1991 - Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois...