Ashesi University

Celebrity Buzz He left Microsoft to start a university: Patrick Awuah and Ashesi Patrick Awuah, who grew up in Accra, went to Swarthmore College on a full scholarship in 1985 and worked at Microsoft from 1989 to 1997. After an MBA at UC Berkeley, he founded Ashesi University in Ghana in 2002. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015 and the WISE Prize for Education in 2017.