Njala University (NU) is a public university located in Njala and Bo , Sierra Leone . It is the second largest university in Sierra Leone (after the University of Sierra Leone ). The largest and main campus of Njala University is in Njala, Moyamba District; the other campus is Bo , the second largest city in Sierra Leone.
5-559: NU was originally created as part of the University of Sierra Leone (USL) in 1964 with the help of USAID and offered degrees in conjunction with the University of Illinois . Subsequent legislation in 1972 paired Fourah Bay and Njala under the University of Sierra Leone act, where the presidents of each institution switched the presidency of the USL on a biennial basis. This continued until 2005, when
10-611: Is the oldest university in Africa. As of May 2005, the University of Sierra Leone was reconstituted into the individual colleges of Fourah Bay College and Njala University college . The university had its origins in the Fourah Bay College , which was established as an Anglican missionary school by the Church Missionary Society with support from Charles MacCarthy , the governor of Sierra Leone. Samuel Ajayi Crowther
15-624: The other three schools, including Agriculture, Environmental Sciences and Technology as well as the university secretariat. However, as of the 2005-2006 year, New England Ville in Freetown was temporarily home to all of Njala's facilities, pending the rebuilding of Njala's campus. University of Sierra Leone The University of Sierra Leone is the name of the former unitary public university system in Sierra Leone . Established in February 1827, it
20-506: The university act separated Fourah Bay and NU into distinct institutions independently run. In the 1999–2000 academic year, NU had 722 male students and 98 female, which equated to approximately 27% of Sierra Leonean college students. It had 436 male staff and 98 females. The university commenced in August 2005 with the founding of 6 schools: Bo campus has three schools, Education, Community Health Services and Social Sciences. Njala campus has
25-593: Was the first student to enroll at Fouray Bay. Fourah Bay College soon became a magnet for Krio 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 colonialism, Freetown was known as "the Athens of West Africa" as an homage to
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