Examines the converging forces in U.S. and Britain responsible for the belief that the educational experience of Hampton and Tuskegee had a particular lesson for Black Africa. Studies the transference of the Tuskegee model to Liberia in the late 1920's and 1930's, and the role of the Phelps-Stokes Foundation of New York. (RJ)

Noting that Liberia College, although not operating until 1862, happens to have been the first American collegiate institution proposed specifically for the higher education of blacks, this article discusses what the first degree granting college in West Africa was, and how it could have been generated or sustained by a Liberian population of…