Enid Forde

Enid Rosamund Ayodele Forde (born 1932, date of death unknown) 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.[1]

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.[2]

In 1986 Forde helped to carry out Sierra Leone's national population census. She also participated in the family planning program.[1]

Forde is deceased.[3]

References
  1. Florence Mugambi, Blazing a trail: Women Africanist PhDs, Northwestern Program of African Studies News and Events, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring 2020).
  2. Enid Forde, The Population of Ghana: A Study of the Spatial Relationships of Its Sociocultural and Economic Characteristics. PhD Thesis, Northwestern University, 1966.
  3. Forde, Winston (24 January 2011). The Story of Mining in Sierra Leone. p. 9. ISBN 9781456828301. Retrieved 25 May 2023.


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