Ghanaian-American actor, Michael Blackson has built a school in his hometown Agona Nsaba, in the Central Region. The school facility was commissioned on Tuesday, January 3, 2023.
The provision of the educational facility forms part of his intentions to improve the quality of education for students of Agona Nsaba and its environs.
The school which is named ‘The Michael Blackson Academy’, is a three-storey complex which has lots of classrooms and other amenities to make teaching and learning smooth and enjoyable.
In early 2020, the 49-year-old actor cut the sod for the construction of the school. Then in December of 2022, he took to Twitter to hint at its readiness and announced the date for the commissioning.
Background
Michael Blackson is an American-Ghanaian-Liberian actor and comedian based in the United States.
Michael Blackson was born in Liberia in 1972[citation needed] to a Ghanaian father and a Liberian mother. He spent his young years in between Monrovia and Ghana before relocating to the United States in the mid-1980s. His father died in 2008.
Michael lived in Newark, New Jersey when he was 13, and then settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when he was 15. He began pursuing comedy after his coworker at Domino’s suggested he start open mic.
In 2005, he released a comedy sketch CD entitled Modasucka: Welcome to America. Also in 2005, he made an appearance on TV series 30 Rock, P. Diddy Presents: The Bad Boys of Comedy on HBO, and starred in a commercial for Chappelle’s Show on Comedy Central.
In 2011, Blackson appeared on Starz’s Martin Lawrence Presents: 1st Amendment Stand-up and Showtime’s Shaquille O’Neal Presents All Star Comedy Jam.
Source: myghanadaily
