Lemuel Adolphus Johnson
Lemuel Adolphus Johnson (15 December 1941 – 12 March 2002), was a Sierra Leonean professor, poet, and writer who was based at the University of Michigan. Early life Lemuel Adolphus Johnson was born on 15 December 1941 to Sierra Leone Creole parents in Nigeria. Johnson was raised with a strong awareness of his Creole heritage and this would emerge as a feature of his literary works, notably in ''The Sierra Leone Trilogy.'' His grandfather, Reverend Canon S.S. Williams, was a vicar at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Freetown and part of Johnson's family had ancestral roots in Regent Village in the Colony of Sierra Leone. Education Johnson was educated at the Sierra Leone Grammar School and in 1960 he received the highest scores in all West Africa on the Cambridge University Higher School Certificate examinations. In 1965, Johnson graduated with a degree in Modern Languages from Oberlin College and an M.A. in Spanish from the Pennsylvania State University in 1966. Johnson ...
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