About ICSL

Welcome to the International Christian School of Lomé!

I would like to personally invite you to come and experience the warmth and excitement of our international school community. ICSL is a place where we care about our students’ physical and spiritual growth. Our students are taught by qualified teachers who value excellence in academics and the development of strong character in light with the word of God. Our students enjoy small class sizes, so each child receives the individual attention that they desire and deserve.

ICSL welcomes families from all over the world who are ready for their children to study in a Christian school environment. Today, children from different countries learn and play together, allowing them to grow in their global understanding and commitment to the nations. Our students graduate from ICSL with the knowledge, skills and intellectual competence to pursue higher education.

We are a Christian school, so we integrate biblical principles into all that we teach and do. We emphasize the importance of Christian character, and we strive for excellence in all that we do for God’s glory. In addition, we teach our children the importance of having a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Our students grow spiritually, as they continue to grow personally, physically, academically, socially, and emotionally.

We believe that every child is created in the image and likeness of the Almighty God. For this reason, I can promise that if you choose to send your children to ICSL, they will find their true identity. As a school, we would count it a privilege to partner with you and your family in the education of your children. Thank you for considering ICSL.

Sincerely,

Apostle Dr. Edna V. Tounou

Director, ICSL

Philosophy

It is our responsibility to educate and develop all the attributes of the child including personal, emotional, physical, spiritual, social, and intellectual characteristics.

Mission Statement

To educate the student to become useful to Self, Family, Community, and Nation.

Vision Statement

To promote love, unity, and peace for progress

Core Values

Our core values or central importance for the functioning of the educational system is for each individual to execute peace, patience, love, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness, joy, self-control, kindness and faithfulness. Gal. 5 : 22-23.

ICSL STORY

The International Christian School of Lome is an American Accredited International School Situated in Lome, Togo. It is one of the leading International Schools in Togo, first accredited in 1994 by the Middle State Association of Schools and Colleges, The Commission on Regional and Trans-Regional Accreditation Commission, and authorized by the Togolese government to operate as

Preschool,

Primary school and

Secondary school in English with French as a second language.

Now offers online and in-class Teachers Training for Associate, Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate degrees from the United State; Covenant Theological Seminary in

Christian Education,

Christian Counselling,

Ministry and Biblical Studies, and

Intercultural Studies.

BIOGRAPHY OF APOSTLE DR. EDNA VIRGINIA HUDSON TOUNOU

It is very expedient to begin with one of her favorite quote from the bible and it is extracted from psalm 20:

A Prayer for Victory

“¹May the LORD answer you when you are in trouble! May the God of Jacob protect you! ²May he send you help from his Temple and give you aid from Mount Zion. ³May he accept all your offerings and be pleased with all your sacrifices. ⁴May he give you what you desire and make all your plans succeed. ⁵Then we will shout for joy over your victory and celebrate your triumph by praising our God. May the LORD answer all your requests. ⁶Now I know that the LORD gives victory to his chosen king; he answers him from his holy heaven and by his power gives him great victories. ⁷Some trust in their war chariots and others in their horses, but we trust in the power of the LORD our God. ⁸Such people will stumble and fall, but we will rise and stand firm. ⁹Give victory to the king, O LORD; answer us when we call.”

Her Background

Apostle Dr. Edna Virginia Hudson Tounou was born in a small town in Clover Virginia located in Halifax County. She attended Elementary school, commonly called Primary school up to Junior High School in the state of Virginia, USA. What made a big impact on her is the church founded by her grandfather Albert Hudson called “Bethlehem Baptist church”.

Bethlehem Baptist Church

This is where she was baptized. Actually it took one week to go on from the mourner’s bench to asking for forgiveness of sin and then to be baptized; She was baptized at the age of twelve by immersion. From this foundation, she believes today that Water Baptism symbolizes a connection and recognition that you are born again into the spirit of God, after the forgiveness of your sins and for you to believe in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Her father, Lafayette Hudson, who was also a pianist in the church, was an agriculturist and a digger and served honorably throughout his life. Her mother, Lucy Elizabeth Moore, was a singer in the choir. She was also a domestic engineer, and an agriculturist; gardening, raising chicken, fishing, preserving food and even had the ability to cane and preserve food for the winter. Her delicious dessert cannot go unremembered.

All of these things made a real impact on her life in terms of developing her different levels of intelligence; including the farm life which developed a naturalistic intelligent giving her the ability to relate with nature and all its beauty as reflected in the different spices of plants, animals and food.

She is from a family of nine children; with her parents, two elder sisters and four elder brothers deceased, it is remaining herself and a younger sister and brother.

MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE HIGH SCHOOL

GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH

TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

COVENANT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

HER EDUCATION

She has been blessed to have had an education that has blessed others; all of her primary education was in Virginia. Her middle school started at the Mary Mcleod Bethune High School, where she had her Junior High School education.

After the family moved from the rural community of Virginia to Great Neck North Island New York, for better jobs and opportunities she got enrolled and continued her senior high school education at Great Neck North High where she received her high school diploma.

It was a profound educational development to be exposed to a rich environment of learning and culture which she has implanted in others over these fifty one years in teaching and directing as the first African-American female pioneer who has promoted American based and Christian based education in West and Central Africa. This includes voice lessons, all types of sports and athletics, not forgetting visiting the Guggenheim Museum where she saw the famous of Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci. During a school excursion to the Metropolitan Opera House to enjoy the culture of New York, she had the opportunity to see her first figural opera. She will also not forget the experience of having to eat bagel and lox for the first time.

From high school, she got admission into the fame Tuskegee Institute now Tuskegee University founded by Booker T. Washington. After her years of studies, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Art Education.

She received a scholarship to the University of Arkansas for her Postgraduate studies to receive a Master of Science degree in Liberal Arts Education funded by the Office of Overseas Schools, Washington DC, whose mission is to promote quality educational opportunities at the elementary and secondary level for dependents of American citizens carrying out the programs of the U.S. Government abroad. With this training, she served the American Community School as a teacher and director from 1969 to 1981 which is now called the American International School of Lome.

After several years of service to the international community as a teacher, administrator, and superintendent of schools, she decided to climb to the very top of the educational ladder. So when she traveled to the United State of America in 2019, she with Dr. Bernetha Mouzon agreed to start the Professional Development Program in Togo affiliated with the Covenant Theological Seminary (Greenville, North Carolina USA).

She was not only the Administrator of this program but also one of the pioneers, victoriously crowning her educational success with two doctorates under the tutoring and supervision of a lecturer and Facilitator sent to Togo by Covenant Theological seminary, Dr. Bernetha Mouzon; Doctor in Biblical Studies and Doctor of Christian Education.

Her professional expertise was heightened through her membership and participation in the African Association of International Schools from 1975 – 2012 including training teachers for the school (ISL-ICSL, ISB-ICSB) in Lomé and Cotonou-Benin. These meetings enhanced her educational and touristic travel including Mallorca Spain, Nairobi Kenya, Lusaka Gambia, Brazzaville the Republic of the Congo, Libreville Gabon, Yaoundé Cameroon, Lagos Nigeria, Monrovia Liberia, Dakar Senegal, Niamey Niger, Accra Ghana, Bamako Mali, and Lomé Togo.

EDUCATIONAL TRAINING AND TRAVELS

In 1969 she left the United State and got married to Mr. Kpakpo Rigobert Tounou in Lomé –Togo, a Mechanical Engineer, graduated from Tuskegee University who served as a principal of the International School of Lomé and the International Christian School of Lomé from 1993 till 2012. His powerful impact on leadership and his knowledge especially in Chemistry Physics and Mathematics to strengthen the student’s capacity in these areas shall never be erased from the school’s history and memory of its wonderful and cherished alumni.

She began her own school, the International Preschool of Lomé in 1981 and developed it through the help of the almighty God up to the secondary “lycee” level. Recognized by the Ministry of Education of Togo, The Middle State Association of Schools and Colleges, and the Commission of Inter-Regional and Trans-Regional Accreditation.

The International School of Lomé and Benin and The International Christian schools of Lomé and Lomé, with the help of the professional staff, raised the standard of education for their students qualifying the majority of them to enter universities in the United States of America, Canada, Europe, China, Lebanon, Ghana, Germany, and Nigeria.

Students and teachers from about 40 nationalities have come under the influence and training of Mrs. Tounou and the professional staff including Algeria, Australia, Benin, Burkina Faso, CÔte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, China, Canada, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, France, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Germany, Haiti, Holland, India, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Sierra Leon, Sudan, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, United Kingdom, United States America, and Zambia.

Having made a great contribution over the last fifty one years, giving more motivation and direction to students and teachers, she counts it all joy for them to attain great levels of development and accomplishments in their life. This is the objective of the International Christian School of Lomé and Benin to develop the children to the level where they become independent and self-reliant so they can help themselves, their families and their nation and make an impact in the world.

Her present status is the president of the African Association of the International Christian Schools, Antoine Adote Tounou, treasurer (Masters Computer Science Engineering), Adole Tounou Douglas as Secretary (Masters Molecular Biology), Dr. Bernetha Mouzon (Doctor in Christian Counseling), facilitator of programs Covenant Theological Seminary USA, Offering degrees such as Associates of Arts, Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorates in Ministry, Biblical Studies, Christian Education, Christian Counseling and Intercultural Studies.

The purpose of the association is to promote education with scholarships, a charity with food and clothing, and Christian education with moral development throughout Africa which has been possible in Togo for forty years and Benin for twenty years imparting the lives of students, teachers, and its communities. Not forgetting the charity outreach to Kpessi village and Gabianou Kodji in Togo and the establishment of the Apostolic Youth Ministry; promoting Christianity and aid to the children and the youth in the community.

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