Fourah Bay College is a public university in the neighbourhood of Mount Aureol in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

[2] Fourah Bay College soon became a magnet for Sierra Leone Creoles and other Africans seeking higher education in British West Africa.

The first black principal of the university was an African-American missionary, Reverend Edward Jones from South Carolina, United States.

In 1985 unrest broke out in Fourah Bay College following a purge of those suspected of militancy inspired by Gaddafi's Green Book, and retaliatory violence and arrests ensued.

[4] Work began on the building of the Institute of African Studies in 1966 with half the £40,000 being provided by the UK Technical Assistance Programme.