Abstract This essay proposes a field-defining intervention into the study of Fourah Bay College at the threshold of its bicentenary. It argues that the college should not be approached merely as an object of commemoration, nor reduced to the familiar myth of the “Athens of West Africa.” Instead, Fourah Bay College should be studied through its ruptures: the missing archive …
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