Fourah Bay College
Mount Aureol, Freetown , 8°28′37.9″N 13°13′16.3″W / 8.477194°N 13.221194°W | |
Campus | Freetown campus (urban) |
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Language | English |
Affiliations | University of Sierra Leone |
Website | fourahbaycollege |
Fourah Bay College is a
History
Foundation
The college was established in February 1827 as an
The first black principal of the university was an
Old Fourah Bay College Building
Governor William Fergusson laid the foundation stone of the original Fourah Bay College building when construction started in 1845, with construction supervised by Edward Jones, who became the institution's first principal. The original Fourah Bay College building remained in regular use until World War II when the college was temporarily moved outside Freetown. After the war it became the headquarters of Sierra Leone Government Railway and later as a Magistrate court. The building was proclaimed a National Monument in 1955. The building ceased to be in use in early 1990, and caught fire in 1999.[4]
Administration
Faculties
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Applied Accounting
Institutes
Institute of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies
Institute of African Studies
Work began on the building of the Institute of African Studies in 1966 with half the £40,000 being provided by the UK Technical Assistance Programme. The first Director was Michael Crowder with J. G. Edowu-Hyde as secretary. The journal Sierra Leone Studies was also relaunched at this time.[5]
Institute of Marine Biology and Oceanography
Institute of Population Studies
Institute of Library, Information and Communication Studies
Students
As of 1998/1999, the student enrollment was around 2,000 in four faculties and five institutes. It had consistently expanded in the 10 previous years.
Notable alumni
See also Category:Fourah Bay College alumni
- Anglicanbishop of West Africa and first graduate of Fourah Bay College
- Lati Hyde-Forster, first African principal of Annie Walsh Memorial School and first female graduate of Fourah Bay College[6]
- Sir Ernest Dunstan Morgan, pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Sir Samuel Bankole-Jones (1911– 1981), former Chief Justice and first Sierra Leonean president of the Court of Appeal[7]
- Sir Salako Benka-Coker (1900–1965), first Sierra Leonean Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
- Governor-General of Sierra Leone[9]
- Sir Samuel Lewis (1843–1903), first mayor of Freetown and first West African to receive a knighthood[10]
- Sir Emile Fashole-Luke (1895–1980), former Chief Justice and Speaker of Parliament[11]
- Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, economist and current mayor of Freetown
- linguist[12]
- Henry Rawlingson Carr, educator and administrator
- PhD[14]
- Anglicantheologian
- commissioner of Police of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia(ATMIS)
- Chief Justice of Sierra Leone[15]
- Michael Adekunle Ajasin
- theologian
- David Omashola Carew, economist and former cabinet minister
- Victor Chukuma Johnson (1944–2012), former chairman and deputy leader of the All People's Congress[16]
- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons[17]
- oil industriesand former Minister of Energy
- Africana studies at Texas A&M University[18]
- Sierra Leone National Anthem[19]
- Thomas Josiah Thompson (1867–1941), lawyer, one-time mayor of Freetown and newspaper proprietor.[20]
- Samuel Benjamin Thomas (1833– 1901), philanthropist, entrepreneur and one of the richest men in 19th-century Africa.[22]
- Sam Franklyn Gibson, former mayor of Freetown.
- Kelvin Anderson
- J. E. Casely Hayford
- Africanus Horton, surgeon, scientist and political thinker who worked towards African independence a century before it occurred
- Thomas Horatio Jackson
- Desmond Finney, actor and nominee for the Zafaa Global Film Awards[23]
- James Ayodele Jenkins-Johnston, barrister and human rights defender[24]
- political scientist and former deanat Fourah Bay College
- Abel Bankole Stronge, lawyer and one-time Speaker of the Parliament of Sierra Leone
- academic[25]
- Akintola Gustavus Wyse (died 2002), author and professor of history at Fourah Bay College[26]
- Bishop of Sierra Leone who later became Archbishop of the Province of West Africa
- Obadiah Johnson
- Kenneth Dike, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan
- Thomas Sylvester Johnson (1873–1955), educator, theologian and former bishop of Sierra Leone[27]
- university professor and principal of Fourah Bay College[28]
- university administrator[29]
- Alexander Babatunde Akinyele
- Zainab Bangura
- Kojo Botsio
- J. B. Dauda, Foreign Minister
- M. G. Ejaife
- David J. Francis
- Ibrahim Fofanah, Footballer
- Ella Koblo Gulama
- Abu Bakarr Kanu, Professor of Chemistry at the Winston-Salem State University
- John Karefa-Smart
- Fatou Sanyang Kinteh
- Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone
- Sia Koroma, First Lady
- Tamba Lamina, Sierra Leonean Cabinet Minister
- Sir Milton Margai
- Sam Mbakwe
- Benjamin Quartey-Papafio
- Frederick Poku Sarkodee, one of the three Ghanaian High Court judges that were martyred on June 30, 1982.
- Kadi Sesay
- Shekou Touray, Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations
References
- ^ "About Us". Fourah Bay College. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ^ Kopytoff, Jean Herskovits. A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba, 1830–1890. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 35.
- ^ "Sierra Leone : A Political History [PDF] [vcq9k0dnb5o0]".
- ^ "Old Fourah Bay College Building". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- JSTOR 159418.
- ^ africanvoice (2017-10-26). "The Krios of Sierra Leone – Pioneers throughout Africa - African Voice Newspaper". African Voice Newspaper. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
- ^ Crowder, Michael. “Symposium of West African Archaeologists.” The Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 1966, pp. 238–39. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/158948. Accessed 19 Apr. 2023.
- ^ "Sierra Leone Heroes: Beoku-Betts". www.sierra-leone.org.
- ^ Fisher, H. (1969). Elections and Coups in Sierra Leone, 1967. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 7(4), 611-636. doi:10.1017/S0022278X00018863
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ISBN 9780903274180– via Google Books.
- ^ Neville Shrimpton, Thomas Decker and The Death of Boss Coker (1987)
- ISBN 9780199243563.
- ^ Florence Mugambi, Blazing a trail: Women Africanist PhDs, Northwestern Program of African Studies News and Events, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring 2020).
- ISBN 978-0-8108-6504-4.
Prominent barrister and educator, Renner-Thomas became chief justice of Sierra Leone in 2005.
- ^ "Another Sad Loss: APC Vice Chairman Passes Away". www.thepatrioticvanguard.com. 16 July 2012.
- ^ "Irene Ighodaro". Young Historians Project. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ "Violet Johnson Profile". www.liberalarts.tamu.edu.
- ^ Fyle, Magbaily (2006). Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. p. 57.
- ISBN 9781136891137.
- ^ Magbaily C. Fyle, Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone, p. 38
- ISBN 978-1-85065-031-7.
- ^ "'Private sector must help the movie industry '- Sierra Leonean Desmond Finney".
- ^ Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, The London Gazette, June 06, 1969; retrieved September 26, 2016
- ^ "Interview with Rosolu John Bankole Thompson, March 21, 2014". Kentucky Oral History. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "Akintola Wyse: A Brief Biography". www.hyperleap.com.
- ^ Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions (1998), by Gerald H. Anderson, W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- ^ Africa Who's Who, London: Africa Journal for Africa Books Ltd, 1981, p. 537.
- ^ "A review of Porter's Creoledom". www.natinpasadvantage.com.
External links
- Media related to Fourah Bay College at Wikimedia Commons
- Official Fourah Bay College website
- Fourah Bay College history
- Urhobo Historical Society.