Edward Wilmot Blyden III

Edward Wilmot Blyden III was a diplomat, political scientist and educator born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He distinguished himself as an educator and contributor to postcolonial discourse on African selfgovernment, and Third World nonalignment. He was the grandson of Edward Wilmot Blyden.

Edward Wilmot Blyden III was born Edward Wilmot Abioseh BlydenTaylor onMay 1918, to Isa Cleopatra Blyden and Joseph Ravensburg Taylor in the Baimbrace neighbourhood of Freetown. As an infant, he suffered the effects of rickets brought on by malnutrition in the wake of the 191819 Spanish Flu pandemic. While this affected his ability to walk in early childhood it was not a lasting disability. Edward and his sister Amina were raised by their mother, Isa Cleopatra Blyden and their Liberian grandmother, Anna Espadon Erskine, who were both headmistresses of primary schools in the Muslim communities of Foulah Town and Fourah Bay even though the family were active members of the Zion Methodist Church, Wilberforce Street. He attended the Ebenezer Amalgamated Primary School.

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