Edward Francis Bani Forster, FRSA, FWACP, was a Gambian physician and academic based in Ghana.
In 1932, he was enrolled at Church Missionary Society Grammar School in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for his secondary education and graduated in 1937.
[7] Forster began his career as a house surgeon at the Birmingham Accident Hospital, in the West Midlands of England, in 1943.
[2] After serving for about 19 years as the doctor in charge of the Accra Mental Hospital, Forster was appointed associate professor of Psychiatry at the University of Ghana Medical School.
[14] He married Essi Matilda Forster (née Christian, who was the first female Gold Coast native to become a lawyer) on 17 December 1944.