Enid Forde

Enid Rosamund Ayodele Forde (born 1932) is 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

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]

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.
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