West Africa's First College Abandoned But Here's What You Didn't Know//Fourah Bay College

[@africanstoryteller]

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[@rosemond1644]

The old university had its own church, clubhouse, sports center and dorms they where all over the grounds it was so big you will easily get lost going from house to house, It looks different today because there was no other life up there other than campus life. It was very prestigious back in the days. There was students from Germany england and from every african country, including USA. We went to lagonda and laronda club on saturday since i was in highschool and it was a mix of different nationalities. The population of freetown was max 400 thousand people and we where the golden children. Beach_ life, clubing, studying, dating life was really good.

[@mikek9085]

Over 12 years now students are not residing at the college, so most of these places are not functional. The hostels are under renovations.

[@iTuber012]

Yes, sadly, Freetown became overpopulated during/after the Civil War

[@berthekabwe871]

WOW!! Athens of Africa? I didn't know that! Amazing history! There is so much history in Sierra Leone and you Virtue Grace are doing your part in educating us.

[@africanstoryteller]

Yes, Athens of Africa. A lot of history in Sierra Leone. The tourism potential if this country has to be developed

[@mariamasipa4197]

Is sad that they left it that is an historical place I think they should renovate it as a tourist attractions

[@mikek9085]

Thank you for having me on your channel Grace.

[@africanstoryteller]

Thank you for the articulate history session. Tenkie👏

[@mikek9085]

@@africanstoryteller 👋U sef tenki ya

[@iTuber012]

@@mikek9085 How does one contact you? I am a Sierra Leonean and would like to buy into the farm you are starting

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[@iTuber012]

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[@praisethelord.]

Wow! The university is so beautiful!!! Well done dear sis. Thank you Mr. Mike

[@itzadacobae1948]

Thank you @virtue grace for portaging the beauty and culture of Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 Africa ✌️❤️

[@ramatup.]

Too bad this building is still abandoned,😞 It should have been Treasured. Oh Salone 🇸🇱❤ a land that we love!

[@BERNIEO4]

Thank You Sister for bringing us the Truth about our many Culture's and achievements 😉😉

[@onkng8603]

Blessings to you always sister 👊🏾👊🏾

[@BrowncoatBlue]

Great video, Virtue Grace! Always something new that I otherwise never would have been able to learn about 👍🏾

[@africanstoryteller]

Thank you, I'm glad you're learning something from my videos

[@SusanitaEfe]

I really enjoyed the history class today keep soaring girl.

[@africanstoryteller]

Thanks dear. I appreciate you 🤗❤️

[@veronicabeckley8779]

Thank you virtue you did a good job

[@JohnMooreBarbados]

It would be a good idea to have this historic college renovated so it can become a tourist attraction or other useful purpose.

[@queenbscorner]

My Mom and Grandpa studied there. I was also there a few months ago. Great video ❤

[@joeyternaagor6457]

The first elected civilian governor of Benue state in central Nigeira, in 1979, late Aper Aku, was a graduate of Fourah Bay College.

[@africanstoryteller]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing this important information uncle.

[@erjanica25]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@emmanuelsawyerr5885]

Wow thank u so much Mike K and Virtue Grace, keep up the good work. shall fine time to Visit the Old College

[@africanstoryteller]

Pleasure is ours. Thank you for watching

[@yayahjabbie1897]

I'm almost watching all your videos.. Thanks for taking Sierra Leone to the world

[@africanstoryteller]

Thank you

[@billinuma8078]

Thanks for going there. It is unfortunate it was abandoned. That is living history.

[@josephjames6339]

Grace looking good!!!

[@veronicabeckley8779]

Tenki tenki brother mike.

[@alphonseonye3009]

Fourah bay was quite popular in those days, as one of the oldest colleges in West Africa. Hopefully, you'll bring us information about st Joseph's College, Sasse, in Cameroon, established in 1912

[@patricewellesley7550]

Yes , studied at Fourah bay for 6 months and my Dad a Maths lecturer there. Patrice Wellesley- Cole

[@doreenonekalit9888]

Athens of Africa 🇸🇱💚💙🤍 Keep the fire burning. Another amazing content.

[@africanstoryteller]

Thank you ❤️🇸🇱

[@TsarEventsDMC]

OMG! Thank you for wonderful video! It is really interesting and motivating! Cannot wait when all of us start travel again! Thank you for helping to promote tourism! so cool.

[@africanstoryteller]

Thank you. You'll definitely love Sierra Leone when you visit

[@raymondmordi7937]

Thank you very much for this

[@akindele13]

My whole family pretty much went to Grammar School and Annie Walsh. And Fourah Bay too.

[@rosemond1644]

Grace the old university had other buildings surrounding it also the main building is the one that is burnt down but there is more to it. You should have taken Antoinette she is a scholar and knows better that this guy. I did not study there but my boyfriend did so i visited that old university nearly every sunday. 😀

[@veronicabeckley8779]

I am a sierra leonean but i traveled to us to study

[@tvs9978]

As long as you come back to give your skills to Sierra Leone

[@iTuber012]

I am curious if the University of Liberia is the 2nd oldest? There is a lot of history in Liberia as well

[@uzoejekwumadu7731]

Furah Bey College and Legon Ghana were center of learning for West Africa students in the 1920/30s, the coming of great university of Ibadan bridge the gap for Nigerians in 1948.

[@artbw3413]

Sad 😭 such a historical building and landmark is in ruins. It seems the govt is waiting for outside funding, rather than taking the initiative to rehabilitate the building and doesn't see the tourist, education, and other potential.

[@berthekabwe871]

Btw your outfits are beautiful 🔥🔥🔥

[@africanstoryteller]

Thank you 🤗

[@veronicabeckley8779]

Gourah bay college oh yeah

[@oceejekwam6829]

There must be a UNESCO fund that Sierra Leone can apply for the restoration of the site.

[@africanstoryteller]

Definitely, this should definitely be a UNESCO site like the other UNESCO sites across the world

[@oceejekwam6829]

@@africanstoryteller We need a knowledgeable Sierra Leonians to update us with the "state of play" regarding an application for funding the restoration of this historical site.

[@daudaconteh7144]

@@oceejekwam6829 my Brother DONT waste your time, I am Not been negative but let that Aid reach the hands of the LEADERS, the next morning they will Charter a whole flight to Keep or save the money in foreign Banks and send their children overseas or misuse the fund. Until we Africans Stop been selfish to ourselves or Africa will Not progress, I am telling you. A child born today in Africa( newly born Baby) , is either Corrupt or selfish to himself .

[@gallaouedermaez8336]

Big hugs

[@veronicabeckley8779]

Annie walsh memorial my alma mater

[@FelixTribeAfrica001]

Bring out the best out of Africa

[@doreenonekalit9888]

Indeed.

[@doreenonekalit9888]

Early Bird 😉🇸🇱💚💙🤍

[@hindoikawa2297]

Sierra Leone was the Athens of Africa. Most heads of states attended college here.

[@josephsnellson3444]

Is not one of the oldest, but the oldest and the first university in West Africa.

[@Dr.Sharron]

People from around the word attended schools in Africa. I do not think the college followed the Western curriculum. This is what happens when you educate your enemies. They use your education as weapons against you.

[@billinuma8078]

Not the oldest university in West Africa the oldest in the world was in Timbuktu-Mali.

[@gibson2675]

What curriculum do you think the college followed. Also I think this is a project that should be financed by the diaspora

[@daudaconteh7144]

@@billinuma8078 but he said it that the oldest is Timbuktoo but the first university in West Africa That follows or teach the Western curriculum is fourah bay College. Timbuktoo in Mali started with Quranic Education ( islamic scholars)

[@billinuma8078]

@@daudaconteh7144 I was correcting Snellson not the man in the video.

[@gallaouedermaez8336]

Free Big hugs

[@gallaouedermaez8336]

Good night darling

[@berthekabwe871]

I wish they could have tried to maintain such an historic building

[@africanstoryteller]

Me too, I pray it becomes a UNESCO World heritage site

[@Dr.Sharron]

The building is a historical landmark. Why was it not restructured and preserved as such? It would make a beautiful museum of African inventors and inventions or library. Perhaps, a mega high school for African children. It is time the aboriginal Africans invest in Africa, their land. Yes, I would like to study in Africa to learn truth about world history and not the watered-down curriculum of the western studies. I also would ike to learn science and mathematics in Africa 🌍. I crave to be challenged in academia. America 🇺🇸 education system is the worst in the world.

[@rosemond1644]

The rebels burnt it down, not tourist it could be a hospital or an elite school. The degree was a Bachelor of Arts in Medicine, Law, Engineering and science (doctors).

[@mikek9085]

the medical school is not at Fourah Bay college, its a college on its own and form one of the constituent college that made up the University of Sierra Leone

[@cornneldolley7010]

This colonial college is not older than the college in Mali 🇲🇱 Timbuktu

[@africanstoryteller]

No one said it is. Watch again and listen carefully

[@toheebadeshina2740]

There's nigerian influence in Sierra Leone

[@africanstoryteller]

Yes, it is unmistakable

[@yoobon5670]

One of the reasons we also have many Sierra Leonian Creole families in Ogun State (Abeokuta) like the Williams,Savage,Durings, Willoughby-Thompson, Ransom-Kuti etc

[@africanstoryteller]

@@yoobon5670 yes, the Cokers