Freetown Keke Tour

Went on a tour of FreetownF with an organisation called the Freetown Keke Tour. They picked my up shortly after 10am for the 3hr tour. The first point of call was the Leicester Peak, the tallest point in Freetown where we had an aerial view of the town. On the way we stopped to admire some colonial Portuguese buildings in the European quarter.

As part of the tour we visited the new site of Fourah Bay college and the old Fourah bay building which was burnt down during the civil war. Fourah Bay college is the oldest university in sub-sahara Africa and was founded in 1827.

The tour continued to downtown with a photo stop over at the famous Cotton tree which was destroyed by a storm in May 2023. We also stopped over at Thomas Peters statue, one of the founding members of Sierra Leone born in Yorubaland in 1738, enslaved and taken to America in 1760. Finally passed by the Old Kings Gate.Read more