Rosamond Fowlis

Rosamond Arorunkah Fowlis MBE (3 October 1910 – 20 August 1994) was a Gambian schoolteacher, domestic science organizer, Girl Guides commissioner and chair of the Gambia Women's Federation.

She was the daughter of Henry G. Fowlis, a prominent member of the Aku Methodist community.

She was educated at the Methodist Girls' High School in Bathurst, and from 1943 to 1947 at St Joseph's Convent, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

[1] A 1943 report on Infant and Girls Education in the Gambia recommended that Fowlis be provided an assistant, and given the opportunity to visit the United Kingdom for additional training.

[1] Fowlis was appointed to the Gambia Education Board in 1945,[1] and in 1953 was one of the five women on the 34-member Consultative Committee to the Governor on Constitutional Reform.