Andrew Foster (1925-1987) was a Black deaf missionary who played an instrumental role in Deaf education throughout Africa.
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Many Kenyan schools for the deaf were founded by those educated in the United States, such as Andrew Foster, an American missionary, and Michael Ndurumo, who introduced the use of the ASL manual alphabet, as well as many interpreters and volunteers associated with them.
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Andrew Foster, a deaf Black missionary is was the first Black graduate of Gallaudet University arrived in Africa in 1957 and greatly expanded the state of deaf education throughout the continent by building thirty-one schools for the deaf, the first of which is located in Ghana.
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