Vision & Mission
“The mission of the Professor Bassey Andah Memorial Foundation is to perpetuate Professor Bassey Andah’s far reaching humanistic and scholarly ideals in the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, History, The Sciences and in the Study of Man and Human Societies.”
The professor Bassey Andah Foundation is a non-governmental organisation duly registered in Nigeria for the primary objectives of executing the following:-
- Management ad supervision of the research into the published and unpublished works of Late Professor Bassey Andah.
- Establishment of an Education Trust Fund for the education of needy children and orphans in Nigeria Colleges and tertiary institutions.
- Organizing symposia, workshop and conferences in the field of Archaeology and Anthropology and related disciplines
- Ensuring, promoting and financing the establishment of Chairs for the study of Archaeology and Anthropology in selected Nigerian Universities.
- Conducting and organizing an Annual Memorial Lecture for Professor Bassey Andah.
- Establishment of a Center of excellence to be called Professor Bassey Andah Memorial Foundation Center.
- Promoting the educational, moral and Christian ideals of Late Professor Bassey Andah.
- Professor Bassey Andah was a thorough bred scholar and teacher, an astute university Administrator, an elder of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, a keen sportsman, the first African Professor of Archaeology in Africa and the First Black African President of the World Black Archaeology Congress.
Professor Bassey Andah Foundation has opened a Center for Cultural Studies at University of Calabar; Nigeria.
Excellence in Governance-The Story of two Cities on the Calabar and Limpopo Rivers. In collaboration with University of Cape Town, South Africa.
An International Conference on Indigenous Technology as a reference point achieving Sub Saharan Africa’s Millennium Development Goals is currently planned
The Foundation shall seek to establish linkages between universities in Nigeria and Universities in Africa to develop a quantum of academic exchange for the benefit of the people of Africa and in the spirit of NEPAD.