The Most Reverend Joseph Henry Ganda, Archbishop Emeritus, (born 22 March 1932 in , Bo District, British Sierra Leone) is the retired Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Freetown and Bo. Born in the village in the Bo district, he was the first in the area to study for the priesthood.He completed seminary training at in Enugu, Nigeria in 1955 returning home a Deacon. On 9 April 1961 he was ordained the first priest of Sierra Leone (just two weeks before its political independence). He was made the first Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Kenema in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone in 1971.