 can't believe that I'm standing right in front of the first university in West Africa. No, let me tell you something. I didn't even know that the first university in West Africa was in Freetown. This is what Africa to the world I've done to me and I want to say thank you so much for bringing me here but you know what I always do? I travel to learn and I'm here to learn and I know the people following me are also here to learn with me. Can you be our lecturer for today? Well this is the first ever university in West Africa that was founded by the Anglican church mission in the year 1827. 1827? February 1827. Where you born that time? I wasn't. But yeah ever since then this university has been the pride of Sierra Leone and West Africa as a whole. Yeah because the name the Athens of West Africa I'm sure you've. I've heard it. Yeah you've heard that. Came as a result of the fact that people around Africa the whole of West Africa used to come here to study because this university was producing elites all around the world and so it was like something good for people to experience so we had people from Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, they were all coming here. My Ghana brothers were here. Yes. They came to study. Yes our parents told us that back then they had lots of other West African people they are coming here to study. So this is the great. Of course this is the ancient structure. Yeah. Yeah but it still has lots of memories as you can see. I think it is too strong. Yeah. But can I find out who was the first student who studied in here? Ah the first student was Bishop Ajai Crowder. Ajai. Ajai Crowder. Sounds like a Nigerian name. Oh well for us here we say it's a Creole name but you know Creoles here is a blend of Ghanians, Nigerians because Africans were all the same so in one way or the other. But according to history I think like people living in Freetown basically from different African countries due to the slavery so I think Ajai is an Nigerian name. Yes because they went there they gave birth and then when the white people decided to release them some of them came here. Some of them came to Suallun while others went to different African countries. Yeah so the ones we had here we call them the Creoles. Wow. This is a beautiful structure man. I would love to see how it looks like in the year 1827. Yeah I guess it was beautiful because it still looks beautiful. And you know like do you watch this movie Harry Potter? Oh yes. It looks like a western style of university. Yeah and actually this is the first western model university in West Africa, the whole of West Africa. And then they used to address it as the Oxford of West Africa you know because it's the first university to open it doors to other African countries to come here. So this investor was here before investor of Suallun? I know this is Fobay College but the thing is yes as time goes by they had another faculty they had other faculties and so it becomes bigger and so now we have three different colleges making up the University of Suallun. Okay. Yeah so this is just Fobay College but when you talk about the University of Suallun you have Fobay College, you have IPAM which is a business school sort of, then you have the medical school College of Medicine. So it comprises of the three that gives you University of Suallun. So this Fobay College was founded by the Anglican Mission in Suallun supported by the Governor then who is Charles McCarthy? Charles McCarthy. Yes. I was the former governor. Yes well way back yes during those days yeah he was the governor. Yeah so he actually supported them you know. I want to say thank you so much but hey we want to know what you do we want to follow you. How do we follow you? Oh I have a YouTube channel. Yes. And to Annette Nunu George. And to Annette Nunu George. All you need to do is to go to your YouTube channel go check it out, go subscribe, go support the movement. And I'm a social worker. I go there for all the gender activist things you know. Exactly. That's how we do it. Yes. So boy Mr. Ghana baby. And I want to say thank you so much for watching this amazing episode. Today I'm definitely going to go in there I'm going to have my degree once again at the first investing in West Africa. I am Maya. Hey hello. What's up this is Antoinette. You're still a union babe. I'm happy that Odera is here with Mr. Ghana baby. So what have you been doing today? What are you doing? I've been up and down. So anytime you see what it requires for you man just give it a thumbs up because behind the scenes you see what goes on behind the scenes. You just have to give it a thumbs up. It's hard work. It's not easy.