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Annie Walsh Memorial School
The Annie Walsh Memorial School is an all-girls secondary school in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It was established in 1849 originally in Charlotte, Sierra Leone, Charlotte, a newly established village for recaptives. It is claimed to be the oldest girls school in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over the years, the school has consistently outperformed its peers in terms of academic achievement, making it the most prestigious secondary school for girls in Sierra Leone. The school's Principal is currently Mrs OPhelia Morrison (née Barber). School history The first school open for girls in Freetown was the school of Sarah Hartwig, but this school had been temporary. Annie Walsh Memorial School was named after an Irish or English girl whose dream was to become a missionary to Africa. Unfortunately Annie Walsh died in a tragic accident at the age of 20. Annie Walsh's last few days are described in 'Dear Annie: A Brief Memorial' published for private circulation and undated. On 19 January 1855 she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freetown
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political centre, as it is the seat of the Government of Sierra Leone. The population of Freetown was 1,055,964 at the 2015 census. The city's economy revolves largely around its harbour, which occupies a part of the estuary of the Sierra Leone River in one of the world's largest natural deep water harbours. Although the city has traditionally been the homeland of the Sierra Leone Creole people, the population of Freetown is ethnically, culturally, and religiously diverse. The city is home to a significant population of all of Sierra Leone's ethnic groups, with no single ethnic group forming more than 27% of the city's population. As in virtually all parts of Sierra Leone, the Krio language of the Sierra Leone Creole people is Freetown's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Ighodaro
Irene Ighodaro (16 May 1916 – 29 November 1995) was a Sierra Leone Creole physician and social reformer who was the first Sierra Leonean woman to qualify as a medical doctor. She was president of the Young Women's Christian Association of Nigeria. She was also the first President of the Medical Association of Nigerian Women. Life Ighodaro was born Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Wellesley-Cole in Freetown, Sierra Leone, one of seven children of engineer Wilfred Wellesley-Cole. Her elder brother was physician Robert Wellesley-Cole. She attended the Government Model School and graduated from the Annie Walsh Memorial School. She decided to become a physician after nursing her mother through a terminal illness. She received her M.B.B.S. from the University of Durham in England in 1945.The Black Handbook: The People, History and Politics of Africa and the ...' She later married Samuel Ighodaro of Benin City with whom she had four children; Tony, Wilfred, Ayo, and Yinka. They moved to Nigeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schools In Freetown
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the '' Regional terms'' section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college or seminary may be availabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Institutions Established In 1849
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chidi Blyden
Chidi Blyden is an American foreign policy advisor who serves as deputy chief executive officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Previously, Blyden was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs. Education Blyden, whose family is originally from Sierra Leone, attended the Annie Walsh Memorial School. Later, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology from Texas A&M University and a Master of Science in conflict, analysis, and resolution from the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. She speaks French and Krio. Career Blyden began her national security career with the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. There, she managed academic programs and outreach. In 2013, Blyden joined the Obama Administration as Special Assistant and peacekeeping advisor in the Office of Stability & Humanitarian Affairs at the United States Department of Defense. Later, she also served as the special assistant to the Deput ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nkechi Agwu
Nkechi Madonna Adeleine Agwu (born October 8, 1962) is a mathematics teacher. Agwu is a naturalized American citizen, tenured faculty at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, part of the City University of New York, and was a director of the college's Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Scholarship. Early life Agwu was born in Enugu, Nigeria, the daughter of two teachers; Jacob Ukeje Agwu from Nigeria, and Europa Lauretta Durosimi Wilson, from Sierra Leone. In the Nigerian Civil War, her family supported the Biafran side, their home in Umuahia was damaged by Nigerian bombers. In 1968, Agwu, her mother, and her siblings left Nigeria on the final evacuation plane taking Biafrans to a refugee camp in Equatorial Guinea, and were moved from there to camps in Liberia and Sierra Leone. They left the refugee camps for her grandmother's house in Sierra Leone, but it had burned down, leaving them homeless. Most of her family returned to Nigeria after the end of the war i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella Thomas
Stella Jane Thomas (later Stella Marke) (1906 – 1974) was a Yoruba Nigerian lawyer of Sierra Leone Creole descent. She received a law degree from Oxford University and in 1943 became the first woman magistrate in Nigeria. Early life and education Stella Thomas was born in 1906, in Lagos, Nigeria, the daughter of Peter John Claudius Thomas, a Sierra Leone Creole businessman based in Lagos. Her father was the first African to head the Lagos Chamber of Commerce.Emeka Keazor"Notable Nigerians: Stella Thomas" ''NSIBIDI Institute'' (4 November 2014). She attended the Annie Walsh Memorial School in Freetown, Sierra Leone, "the oldest secondary school for girls in West Africa". Her brother Peter Thomas became the first West African pilot commissioned in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Another brother, Stephen Peter Thomas, was the first Chief Justice of the Mid-West region. While she studied law at Oxford and was a member of the Middle Temple in London, she was active with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeillo Edwards
Jeillo Edwards (23 September 1942, Freetown, Sierra Leone – 2 July 2004, London, England) was a Sierra Leonean actress, who is notable in the history of black actors in Britain. She was the first woman of African descent to study drama at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She went on to be one of the first black actresses to be cast in a mainstream UK television drama series – ''Dixon of Dock Green'', and for more than four decades performed on British television, radio, stage and films. Biography Jeillo Angela Doris Edwards was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, one of six children, and she attended the Annie Walsh Memorial School. She moved to England in the late 1950s and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She began performing at the age of four, reading from the Bible at her church. She was well known for her distinctive voice and imperious enunciation. She featured on the BBC World Service for Africa, which was broadcast in the UK. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yema Lucilda Hunter
Lucilda Hunter, née Caulker (15 July 1943 – 21 August 2022) was a Sierra Leonean librarian, novelist and biographer, who wrote under the name Yema Lucilda Hunter.Jones, Wilma L."Twenty Contemporary African Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliography" 1995. Accessed 15 February 2020. Life Yema Lucilda Hunter was born on 15 July 1943 in Freetown, to parents Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker (the first African principal of the Albert Academy, who later became a diplomat, serving as Sierra Leone High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to the United States) and Olivette Hannah Stuart (from a prominent African-Caribbean family, whose grandfather, Melvin Stuart, came from the Bahamas in 1878 to work for the colonial administration). She was educated at the Annie Walsh Memorial School,Lucilda Hunter ''Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Leighton Decker
Thomas Alexander Leighton Decker OBE (25 July 1916 – 7 September 1978) was a Sierra Leonean linguist, poet, and journalist. He is best known for his work on the Krio language and for translating Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'' into the Krio language. Decker argued forcefully that the Krio language was not merely a patois but a legitimate language. Because Decker argued that Krio was not a patois, his contributions and revisions to the Krio language greatly influenced and added to the revival and appreciation of the language. Background and early life Thomas Decker was born to Sierra Leonean parents, Joseph Leighton Decker and Jane Decker (''née'' Fraser), in Calabar, Nigeria. His father was a colonial surveyor and architect, while his mother was a trader. Decker was the fourth child and had six siblings, one of whom later studied to become a doctor in England. His mother, Jane, was from a large family from Murray Town, descended from David Pakudi Fraser, a Liberated African s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fourah Bay College
Fourah Bay College is a public university in the neighbourhood of Mount Aureol in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Founded on 18 February 1827, it is the first western-style university built in Sub-Saharan Africa and, furthermore, the first university-level institution in Africa. It is a constituent college of the University of Sierra Leone (USL) and was formerly affiliated with Durham University (1876–1967). History Foundation The college was established in February 1827 as an Anglican missionary school by the Church Missionary Society with support from Charles MacCarthy, the governor of Sierra Leone. Samuel Ajayi Crowther was the first student to be enrolled at Fourah Bay. Fourah Bay College soon became a magnet for Sierra Leone Creoles and other Africans seeking higher education in British West Africa. These included Nigerians, Ghanaians, Ivorians and many more, especially in the fields of theology and education. It was the first western-style university in West Africa. Under colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nemata Majeks-Walker
Nemata Majeks-Walker (born 1946/1947) is a Sierra Leonean women's rights activist. Early life and education Majeks-Walker was born to an Aku Mohammedan family in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. She was an only child. Her mother died when she was only five years old. She was raised by her great-grandmother and other family members. She was educated at the Methodist Girls' School, Magburaka Secondary School for Girls in Mathora, and Annie Walsh Memorial School in Freetown. She won a government scholarship and earned a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature from Fourah Bay College (FBC) in 1972. She trained as a teacher and earned a post-graduate Diploma in Education in 1973. She earned a master's degree in English as a Second Language at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1975. Academic career Majeks-Walker returned to Freetown, lecturing at Fourah Bay College and AWMS, rising to co-head of the English Department in 1981, before working ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
