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6 unusual facts about Fourah Bay College


Abdoulie Janneh

He is also a graduate of Engineering Science from Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone and undertook post-graduate studies in Project Planning and Appraisal at the University of Bradford in England.

Edward Thaddeus Barleycorn Barber

Sierra Leone offered English based education, at the time, with such schools as the Church Missionary Grammar School, and the then prestigious Fourah Bay College still in existence today.

Fourah Bay College

Shekou Touray - Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations

Jehu Jones

Jones is also the brother of Edward Jones, the first black college graduate who later immigrated to Freetown, Sierra Leone and was the first principal of Fourah Bay College.

Kanja Ibrahim Sesay

He holds a bachelor's degree from the Fourah Bay College in Freetown and a Master's degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies in Hague, Netherlands in 1987.

Sierra Leone Grammar School

The Church Mission Society founded Fourah Bay College in 1827 to provide training for African missionaries.


Samuel Ajayi Crowther

He returned to Freetown in 1827 and attended the newly opened Fourah Bay College, an Anglican missionary school, where his interest in language found him studying Latin and Greek but also Temne.


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Abdul Tejan-Cole

He holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) Degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, a Master of Laws from University College London and a post-graduate diploma in International Trade Law from the University Institute of European Studies.