In 1854, the first degree-granting HBCU in the United States opened on a hilltop in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Langston Hughes graduated from Lincoln in 1929. Thurgood Marshall graduated in 1930. Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, graduated in 1939. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first President of Nigeria, graduated from Lincoln. Hastings Banda of Malawi.
This institution, forty-five minutes from Philadelphia’s City Hall, educated the architects of African independence. For World Cup visitors from Ghana, Nigeria, and across West Africa, Lincoln University is not background information. It is the place where the leaders of your countries’ independence movements were shaped. It deserves a pilgrimage.