USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Blyden III Scholarship

The Department of History and African Studies
Fourah Bay College
University of Sierra Leone

Announces

The Edward Wilmot Blyden III Scholarships

The Scholarships, which will start in the 2020 - 2021 academic year, will provide financial support to the best and brightest students in the Department. For more information, please contact Professor Alusine Jalloh at alusine.jalloh@retired.uta.edu.

Professor Edward Wilmot Blyden III, grandson of the legendary Edward Wilmot Blyden, was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1918. He had a long relationship with Fourah Bay College (FBC) as a student in the 1940s, educator, and administrator. Professor Blyden earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Lincoln University, a historically black university, in Pennsylvania and PhD in Political Science from Harvard University in 1959. After returning from the United States, Professor Blyden was appointed Director of Extramural Studies at FBC. He then challenged the British colonial administration, and was subsequently invited by Nnamdi Azikiwe - fellow Lincoln alumnus and first President of Nigeria - to teach at the new University of Nigeria at Nsukka he founded in 1955. There Professor Blyden became the inaugural Director of the Leo Hansberry Institute of African Studies. Professor Blyden returned to FBC in 1967 where he served as Director of African Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. In 1971 Professor Blyden represented Sierra Leone as Ambassador to the Soviet Union and later to the United Nations. He passed away in 2010, aged 92, and was buried in Freetown, like his famous grandfather.


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