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Sierra Leonean Writers
This is a list of Sierra Leonean writers. * John Akar (1927–1975), broadcaster, playwright and diplomat * Gaston Bart-Williams (1938–1990), exiled writer and journalist * Ishmael Beah (born 1980), child soldier and memoirist * Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912), pan-Africanist, born in the Virgin Islands (see also Liberia) * Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868–1960), short story writer and educator * Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet also associated with Ghana * Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945/47), poet, journalist and novelist * Robert Wellesley-Cole (1907–1995), surgeon and autobiographical writer * William Conton (1925–2003), educator, historian, and novelist also associated with The Gambia * R. Sarif Easmon (1913–1997), doctor, playwright and novelist * Aminatta Forna (born 1964), memoirist and novelist *Namina Forna (born 1987), novelist and screen writer * Wilfred Freddy Will Kanu Jr. (born 1977) author, poet, lyricist, hip-hop emcee and blogger. * Africanus H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and environments ranging from savannas to rainforests. As of the 2023 census, Sierra Leone has a population of 8,460,512. Freetown is its capital and largest city. Sierra Leone is a presidential republic, with a unicameral parliament and a directly elected president. It is a secular state. Its Constitution of Sierra Leone, constitution provides for the separation of state and religion and freedom of conscience. Muslims constitute three-quarters of the population, and there is a significant Christian minority. Notably, religious tolerance is very high. Sierra Leone's current territorial configuration was established in two phases: in 1808, the coastal Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate, Sierra Leone Colony was founded as a place to resettle retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africanus Horton
Surgeon-Major James Africanus Beale Horton ( – ) was a British Army officer, surgeon, writer and banker. Born in Gloucester, Sierra Leone into a Creole family who were liberated from enslavement by the Royal Navy, he began attending the SLGS in 1845. After graduating from Fourah Bay College, Horton received a War Office scholarship study medicine in Britain to prepare him for a career in the British Armed Forces, and he attended King's College London and the University of Edinburgh. Serving in the West India Regiments, Horton was posted to various locations within the British Empire, including Lagos, the Gambia, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast and participated in the Anglo-Ashanti wars. Horton wrote extensively on the medicine and botany of West Africa, and espoused African nationalism and pan-Africanism in opposition to racism by European writers. In his works, including ''The Political Economy of British West Africa'' (1865) and ''West African Countries and Peoples'' (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Gikandi
Simon E. Gikandi (born 30 September 1960) is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor of English and Chair, Department of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship (with Abiola Irele) of ''The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature''. He has also done important work on the modern African novel, and two distinguished African novelists: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. In 2019 he became the president of the Modern Language Association. Early life and education Gikandi was born to a Presbyterian family in Nyeri, Kenya. He graduated with a B.A irst-Class Honorsin Literature from the University of Nairobi. He was a British Council Scholar at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from which he graduated with a M.Litt. in English Studies. He has a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University. His major Fields of Research and Teaching are the Anglophone Literatures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sierra Leoneans
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of African Writers By Country
This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa. It includes poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars, listed by country. Algeria ''See: List of Algerian writers'' Angola ''See: List of Angolan writers'' Benin ''See: List of Beninese writers'' Botswana * Unity Dow (1959–), judge, human rights activist, writer and minister of basic education * Bessie Head (1937–1986), novelist and short-story writer born in South Africa * Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–1971), playwright and poet * Barolong Seboni (1957–), poet and academic Burkina Faso ''See: List of Burkinabé writers'' Burundi * Esther Kamatari (1951–) * Ketty Nivyabandi (1978–) * Gaël Faye (1982–) Cameroon ''See: List of Cameroonian writers'' Cape Verde Central African Republic * Pierre Makombo Bamboté (1932–), novelist and poet * Etienne Goyémidé (1942–1997), novelist, poet and short story writer: ''Le Silence de la Foret'' * Blaise N'Djehoya (1953–), novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekundayo Rowe
Ekundayo is a Nigerian given name and surname of Yoruba origin meaning "Weeping has become joy." It is traditionally given to a child born after a period of hardship or sorrow, symbolizing a transition from sadness to happiness. Derived from the words “ẹkún” (tears or weeping), “dì” (to become), and “ayọ̀” (joy or happiness), . In Yoruba culture, Ẹkúndayọ̀ embodies the belief that even in difficult times, joy can emerge. Morphologically written as "Ẹkúndayọ̀". Notable people with the name First name * Ekundayo Adeyinka Adeyemi (1937 – 2022) Nigerian architect. * Ekundayo Opaleye (1946 –2023) Nigerian politician . * Ekundayo Jayeoba, Nigerian footballer. Middle name * Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips, Nigerian organist. Surname * Larry Ekundayo (1982) Nigerian professional boxer References {{hndis Yoruba given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenrie Peters
Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (1 September 1932 – 28 May 2009) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist. Biography Peters was born on 1 September 1932 in Bathurst (now Banjul) in The Gambia. His parents were Lenrie Ernest Ingram Peters and Kezia Rosemary. Lenrie Sr. was a Sierra Leone Creole of West Indian or black American origin. Kezia Rosemary was a Gambian Creole of Sierra Leonean Creole origin. Lenrie Jr. grew up in Bathurst and moved to Sierra Leone in 1949, where he was educated at the Prince of Wales School, Freetown, gaining his Higher School Certificate in science subjects. In 1952 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences, graduating with a BSc degree in 1956; from 1956 to 1959 he worked and studied at University College Hospital, London, and 1959 was awarded a Medical and Surgery diploma from Cambridge. Peters worked for the BBC from 1955 to 1968, on their Africa programmes. While at Cambridge University he was elected pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abioseh Nicol
Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol (14 September 1924 – 20 September 1994), also known by his pen name Abioseh Nicol, was a Sierra Leone Creole physician, diplomat, and writer. Nicol contributed significantly to diabetes research from his discoveries in his analysis of the breakdown of insulin in the human body. He was able to secure degrees in the arts, science and commercial disciplines and he contributed to science, history, and literature. Nicol was the first black African to graduate with first-class honours from the University of Cambridge and he was also the first black African elected as a fellow of a college of Cambridge University. Early life Nicol was born as Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol on 14 September 1924 in Bathurst, Sierra Leone, to Jonathan Josibiah Nicol and Winifred Clarissa Regina Willoughby. He taught at the Prince of Wales School in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, and studied on a scholarship at Christ's College, Cambrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Merriman-Labor
Augustus Boyle Chamberlayne Merriman-Labor, who later took the name Ohlohr Maigi (28 November 1877 – 1919), was a Sierra Leonean barrister, writer and munitions worker. He is best known for his 1909 book ''Britons Through Negro Spectacles'', an introduction to London that was " rt travelogue, part reverse ethnology, and part spoof of books by ill-informed 'Africa experts. Life Merriman-Labor was born in Freetown on 28 November 1877. A Sierra Leonean Creole, he was left in the care of his maternal grandfather John Merriman after his mother accepted a job as headmistress in the Gambia. He became a junior clerk in the office of the Colonial Secretary in Freetown. In 1898, he attracted literary attention with an anonymous essay on the Hut Tax War, ''The Last Military Expedition in Sierra Leone'', which he arranged to be published in Liverpool. The pamphlet, claiming to be the work of an Englishman who had lived in Africa for twenty years, portrayed the colonial administration as ig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrose Massaquoi
Ambrose of Milan (; 4 April 397), venerated as Saint Ambrose, was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397. He expressed himself prominently as a public figure, fiercely promoting Roman Christianity against Arianism and paganism. He left a substantial collection of writings, of which the best known include the ethical commentary ''De officiis ministrorum'' (377–391), and the exegetical (386–390). His preaching, his actions and his literary works, in addition to his innovative musical hymnography, made him one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century. Ambrose was serving as the Roman governor of Aemilia-Liguria in Milan when he was unexpectedly made Bishop of Milan in 374 by popular acclamation. As bishop, he took a firm position against Arianism and attempted to mediate the conflict between the emperors Theodosius I and Magnus Maximus. Tradition credits Ambrose with developing an antiphonal chant, known as Ambrosian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yulisa Amadu Maddy
Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy (27 December 1936 – 16 March 2014)"Freetown: Pat Yulisa Amadu Maddy Passes On" ''The Patriotic Vanguard'', 21 March 2014. was a writer, poet, actor, dancer, director and playwright. Known by his friends and colleagues as Pat Maddy or simply Prof, he had an "immense impact" on theatre in , and |
Joseph Ben Kaifala
Joseph Ben Kaifala is a Sierra Leonean author, lawyer, historian and human rights activist. He is currently serving as the new chairman for the Monuments and Relics Commission in Sierra Leone appointed in 2023 by President Julius Maada Bio. Kaifala set up the non-profit Jeneba Project, with the aim of providing education for underprivileged girls in Sierra Leone and the neighbouring countries of Guinea and Liberia, and also co-founded the Sierra Leone Memory Project to help communities to cope with and heal from past trauma. Biography Kaifala was born in Sierra Leone, where he was raised, as well as spending part of his early childhood in Liberia and Guinea. Later moving to Norway, he studied at the Red Cross Nordic United World College (UWC Red Cross Nordic), and subsequently enrolled at Skidmore College in New York, earning a BA in International Affairs & French, with a minor in Law & Society. He holds a master's degree in International Relations from the Maxwell School at Syrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
