Andrew Foster (educator)

Andrew Jackson Foster
Teacher, pioneer of deaf education in Africa.
Born	(1925-06-27)June 27, 1925 Ensley, Alabama
Died	December 3, 1987(1987-12-03) (aged 62) Rwanda

Andrew Jackson Foster (1925–1987) was an American pioneer of deaf education in several countries in Africa. In 1954, he became the first Deaf African American to earn a bachelor's degree from Gallaudet University, the American university for the Deaf, and the first to earn a master's degree from Eastern Michigan University. He earned a second master's degree from Seattle Pacific Christian College (now Seattle Pacific University), also in education. He founded Christian Mission for the Deaf African in 1956 and set out for Accra, Ghana, where he established the first school for the deaf in West Africa.