WHAT WE DO

Connecting students to their heritage and to the world through traditional and innovative performing arts education.

K-12 School

Nunya Academy provides preschool, kindergarten, primary and junior high school. Our beautiful new building is a modern facility with twelve classrooms, playground, and kitchen and dining facilities for students and staff. Our curriculum includes many special features such as Ewe language and culture, music and dance, French language instruction, and the use of the latest computer technology. The park-like, seven-hectare campus is located on the New Akanu Road in Dodze, Volta Region, Ghana.

Thanks to the generosity of our many donors and international partners, we are able to offer scholarships to assist many students from low-income families and we have been able to acquire two Toyota Coaster school buses to help students with transportation to campus and for off-campus trips and events. If you would like to help us in our work of providing top-quality education to these children, you can donate here.

Music Academy

Since 2012 we have provided free music education as an after-school program. Our performing ensembles include Nunya Habobo (dance-drumming ensemble), Nunya Brass Band (western style winds band with African touch), Nunya Devifefeha (children’s game club), and Nunya Hadziha (traditional choral/vocal ensemble). These ensembles perform frequently in Ghana and Togo at local and national functions such as festivals, weddings, funerals, birthday celebrations, and picnics.

If you would like to help us in our work of providing FREE music education to these children, you can donate here. We also accept doantions of instruments, computers, musical equipment, instructional books and scores. Contact us to inquire about this kind of donation.

Professional Development Programs

Nunya Academy is at the forefront of exchange between Ghanaian traditional culture and music educators an dmusicians from around the world. We have hosted many summer programs including Orff Afrique masterclasses, Nunya Academy Summer Institute, International Body Music Festival. New collaborations and plans for innovative programming are underway with Capilano University Jazz Studies, University of Ghana School of Performing Arts, and Real Humanitarian.