Harry Sawyerr (theologian)

Harry Alphonso Ebun Sawyerr MBE (9 October 1909 – August 1986) was a Sierra Leonean Anglican theologian and writer on African religion.

[1] He became principal of Fourah Bay College and Vice Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone.

[2] Sawyerr studied initially at Fourah Bay College, later moving to England to study at the main campus of Durham University.

[3] Harry Sawyerr was influenced by Thomas Sylvester Johnson, the first assistant bishop of Sierra Leone.

[4] This Sierra Leonean biographical article is a stub.