It has emerged that the Bank of Ghana will from Tuesday, March 7, 2017, circulate a new GH¢5 Ghana note with new security features and designs.

The note, it is understood, is being introduced as part of the Central Bank’s 60th anniversary, which falls on March 4.

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Notably, the new look will see a departure from the image of Ghana's 'Big six', which features on the old note.

The new image replacing it?

That of celebrated Ghanaian James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey.

Aggrey was a scholar, writer and missionary born in the 19th century whose influence was felt in the early part of the 20th century.

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Born on Octover 18, 1875 in Anomabo, the eclectic Aggrey left for the United States in 1898 to study at Livingston College, where he graduated with three academic degrees after studying a wide range of subjects.

After school, he taught for a while at Livingston, got an appointment as the Minister of the African Zion Methodist Church and married a Virginia native named Rose Douglas, with whom he had four children. He later gained two doctorates in Theology and Osteopathy, undertook further studies at Columbia University and later returned to Africa on a research expedition meant to improve education across the continent.

In Ghana - then known as the Gold Coast - he is famous for having been one of three founders of Achimota College, now Achimota School - one of Africa's most celebrated secondary schools, serving as its first Vice Principal.

As an anti-racism advocate, he gained prominence for this profound quote in a lecture delivered in South Africa: "I don’t care what you know; show me what you can do. Many of my people who get educated don’t work, but take to drink. They see white people drink, so they think they must drink too. They imitate the weakness of the white people, but not their greatness. They won’t imitate a white man working hard... If you play only the white notes on a piano you get only sharpnotes; if only the black keys you get flats; but if you play the two together you get harmony and beautiful music."

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This would later influence the stylized piano keys crest of Achimota School, symbolizing integration across colour and races.

He believed in gender equality too. His argument - encapsulated in the immortalized words: "The surest way to keep people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a whole nation" - led to Gold Coast Governor Sir Gordon Guggisberg making Achimota a co-educational institution in an era where it was rare.

(***Achimota School, founded in 1927, is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. There is a non-denominational church building inside the school named 'Aggrey Chapel', a few blocks away from a bust of him***)

In May 1927, Aggrey returned to the USA and died two months later in a hospital in Harlem, New York.

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Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's founder and first President, praised Aggrey in his autobiography as one of the biggest influences in his life.