Andrew Foster (educator)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
This article is about an educator. For the politician, see Andrew Foster.

Andrew Foster (1925 - 1987), born in Ensley, Alabama, was the first African-American graduate of Gallaudet University. Foster got a Master's Degree from Seattle Pacific Christian College, and went to Africa in 1957; he encountered cultures so oppressive of deaf people that parents often hid their deaf children at home or abandoned them altogether. Hearing missionaries told Foster that deaf children didn't even exist in Africa. He found deaf children and established 31 schools for the deaf in Africa. He also established schools in countries including Benin, Congo, Chad, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon. Andrew Foster's life was cut short in a plane crash in 1987, the deaf culture lost a strong influence.

[edit] External link


 This article about a pedagogue is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../a/n/d/Andrew_Foster_%28educator%29_9ef4.html"