The Athens of West Africa

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Christian teachers of both African and European plummet prevailed in the improvement of current European instructive frameworks in West Africa during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.1 Freetown, Sierra Leone was established as the “Territory of Freedom” in 1787 by British philanthropists, abolitionists, and African-Americans who had battled on the British side in the American War of Independence. In Sierra Leone, the Church MissionarySociety (CMS), initially known as the “General public for Missions to Africa and the east,” established in England in 1799, assumed liability for building up schools and employing educators. The CMS recruited a large number of Fourah Bay College’s (FBC)early personnel from the United Brethren Mission of Moravia, Germany, and Basel Mission, situated in a German talking area of Switzerland.2 Europeanmissionaries assumed liability for spreading Western human advancement and Christianity. Returned diasporan African preachers went along with them in these endeavors to a limited extent to help end the slave exchange.