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Harry Sawyerr (theologian)

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{{for|the Ghanaian politician|Harry Sawyerr}}Harry Alphonso Ebun Sawyerr (9 October 1909 – August 1986) was a Sierra Leonean Anglican theologian and writer on African religion.^[1] He became principal of Fourah Bay College and Vice Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone.^[2]

Sawyerr studied initially at Fourah Bay College, later moving to England to study at the main campus of Durham University.^[3] He successively earned Bachelor of Arts (1933), Master of Arts (1936) and Master of Education (1940) degrees.^[3]

Harry Sawyerr was influenced by Thomas Sylvester Johnson, the first assistant bishop of Sierra Leone.^[4]

Works

(with William Thomas Harris) The Springs of Mende Beliefs and Conduct: a discussion of the influence of the belief in the supernatural among the Mende, 1968
Creative Evangelism: towards a new Christian encounter with Africa, 1968
God: Ancestor or Creator? Aspects of traditional belief in Ghana, Nigeria & Sierra Leone, 1970
(ed. J. Paratt) The Practice of Presence: Selected Papers of Harry Sawyerr, 1995

References

1. ^L. M. Miles, Harry Alphonso Ebun Sawyerr, Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2005. Accessed 18 November 2012.
2. ^{{cite book|author=C. Magbaily Fyle|title=Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone: New Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q31SWae8fhIC&pg=PA175|accessdate=18 November 2012|year=2006|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5339-3|page=175}}
3. ^¹{{cite web |title=Sawyerr, Rev. Prof. Canon Harry Alphonso Ebun, (16 Oct. 1909–1986) |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-168873?rskey=pOJ40G&result=420 |website=UK Who's Who |accessdate=5 October 2018 |language=en |}}
4. ^Andrew F. Wallis, 'Johnson, Thomas Sylvester', in Gerald H. Anderson, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, 1998. Reprinted online at the Dictionary of African Christian Biography.

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