| Intro | Sierra Leonean theologian |
| Was |
Religious scholar |
| From |
Sierra Leone |
| Type |
Religion |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 9 October 1909 |
| Death |
1 August 1986 (aged 76 years)
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Harry Alphonso Ebun Sawyerr (9 October 1909 – August 1986) was a Sierra Leonean Anglican theologian and writer on African religion. He became principal of Fourah Bay College and Vice Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone.
Harry Sawyerr was influenced by Thomas Sylvester Johnson, the first assistant bishop of Sierra Leone.
Works
- (with William Thomas Harris) The Springs of Mende Beliefs and Conduct: a discussion of the influence of the belief in the supernatural among the Mende, 1968
- Creative Evangelism: towards a new Christian encounter with Africa, 1968
- God: Ancestor or Creator? Aspects of traditional belief in Ghana, Nigeria & Sierra Leone, 1970
- (ed. J. Paratt) The Practice of Presence: Selected Papers of Harry Sawyerr, 1995