It is important to note that the era during which these developments occurred was also the official end of the slave trade and the misconception of the capacity and mental development of the African was still a subject of derision and denial in some quarters. [...] By an Act of Parliament Sierra Leone allowing the establishment of public and private universities other than the University of Sierra Leone, there are now two public universities – the University of Sierra Leone and the Njala University as well as one private university in the north of the country, the University of Makeni (UNIMAK), owned by the Roman Catholic mission. [...] Furthermore the distribution of the tax allocated to the higher education sector is in the proportion of 50% to the universities and 25% each to polytechnics and colleges of education. [...] It however remains proud of the role it played in establishing the competence and intellect of the African and dispelling the myths that fuelled the injustices that were used as justification during the dark era of the slave trade. [...] Clause 13 of the Will contains elements such as the offering of land preferably a thousand acres “on the banks of the Ribbi River not far from the village of Songo in the Colony...” and the building “on the land given as aforesaid an agricultural Academy or college with the necessary appurtenances and outhouses inclusive of a chapel…… for the 18 education of male natives of the Colony aforesaid in.
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