Enid Rosamund Ayodele Forde (ca. 1932–27 January 2010[1]) was a Sierra Leonean geographer. She was the first Sierra Leonean woman to gain a PhD, and chair of the geography department at Fourah Bay College.[2]

Life and career

Forde gained her PhD at Northwestern University in 1966, with a dissertation on spatial variation in sociocultural and economic characteristics of people in Ghana.[3]

In 1986 Forde helped to carry out Sierra Leone's national population census. She also participated in the family planning program.[2]

Forde's brother, Winston Forde, dedicated the book The Story of Mining in Sierra Leone to his sister:[4]

I write this book from the perspective of a geographer, and mainly for the benefit of our student minds. It seems appropriate, therefore, to dedicate it to my sister, the late Dr Enid Forde BA MA PhD, Professor in Geography and one of our eminent scholars of the period.


References

  1. ↑ "Sierra Leone, Civil Births and Deaths, 1802-2016," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-V3D6-Y9F1-6 : 14 March 2022), > image 1154 of 2277; Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Republic of Sierra Leone.
  2. 1 2 Florence Mugambi, Blazing a trail: Women Africanist PhDs, Northwestern Program of African Studies News and Events, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring 2020).
  3. ↑ Enid Forde, The Population of Ghana: A Study of the Spatial Relationships of Its Sociocultural and Economic Characteristics. PhD Thesis, Northwestern University, 1966.
  4. ↑ Forde, Winston (24 January 2011). The Story of Mining in Sierra Leone. p. 9. ISBN 9781456828301. Retrieved 25 May 2023.


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