Fourah Bay College (founded in 1827 as the first western-style university in West Africa) is the oldest university college in West Africa. It is located atop Mount Aureol in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is a constituent college of the University of Sierra Leone (from 1966 to 2005) and was formerly affiliated with Durham University (from 1876-1967).
Established in 1827 as an Anglican missionary school (by the Church Missionary Society), Fourah Bay College soon became a magnet for Creoles and other Africans seeking higher education under the British Empire, especially in the fields of theology and education. It was the first western-style university in West Africa. Under colonialism, Freetown was known as the "Athens of Africa" as an homage to the college.
The first black principal of the university was an African American missionary, Reverend Edward Jones from South Carolina in the United States. Lamina Sankoh was a prominent early academic; Francis Heiser was principal from 1920 to 1922.Abioseh Nicol was the first Sierra Leonean born administrator in 1966.
The faculties of this university are:
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Law
- Institute of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies
- Institute of African Studies
- Institute of Marine Biology and Oceanography
- Institute of Population Studies
- Institute of Library and Archive Studies and Mass Communications
- His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma
- Zainab Bangura
- Alexander Babatunde Akinyele
- Madam Ella Koblo Gulama
- Sir Milton Margai
- Dr. Kadi Sesay
- Kojo Botsio
- Henry Rawlingson Carr
- Samuel Ajayi Crowther
- John Karefa-Smart
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