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The Athens of West Africa: A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone (African Studies) [Hardcover]

Daniel J. Paracka Jr. (Author)

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September 30, 2003 0415947952 978-0415947954
This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (1938-2001).

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Christian missionaries of both African and European descent predominated in the development of modern European educational systems in West Africa during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.1 Read the first page
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million leones, diasporan blacks, diasporan communities, colonial racism
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Sierra Leone, West Africa, Fourah Bay College, United States, Durham University, World War, Great Britain, Gold Coast, Church Missionary Society, Siaka Stevens, Edward Blyden, Secretary of State, Casely Hayford, Grammar School, Cold War, Elliot Commission, James Johnson, Milton Margai, College Council, Africanus Horton, Albert Margai, Arthur Porter, Davidson Nicol, Edward Jones, Peace Corps
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