[2][3] Forster was born to George James Christian, and Aba Lucy French, in Sekondi, the Gold Coast, on 12 September 1922.
He was a businessman and a private legal practitioner who represented the Western Province as a member of the Gold Coast Legislative Council from 1930 to 1940.
[1][5][6] She then became the first female Gold Coast native to become a lawyer, and the third woman in British West Africa to accomplish this feat.
[1] In July 1951, she returned to the Gold Coast with her husband Edward Francis Bani Forster when the latter was appointed by the then colonial administration to work at the Accra Mental Hospital.
She helped found the Accra branch of the Inner Wheel Club, and the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) in Ghana, serving as the association's president.
[11] She was a Christian and a congregant of the Accra Ridge Church, where she worked as the Sunday School secretary for about 17 years, from 1963 to 1980.