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. * Afr ...
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra Leone has a tropical climate, with diverse environments ranging from savanna to rainforests. The country has a population of 7,092,113 as of the 2015 census. The capital and largest city is Freetown. The country is divided into five administrative regions, which are subdivided into Districts of Sierra Leone, 16 districts. Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic with a unicameral parliament and a directly elected executive president, president serving a five-year term with a maximum of two terms. The current president is Julius Maada Bio. Sierra Leone is a Secular state, secular nation with Constitution of Sierra Leone, the constitution providing for the separation of state and religion and freedom of conscience (which includes freedom of ...
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Africanus Horton
Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, was a Krio African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Africanus Horton was a surgeon, scientist, soldier, and a political thinker who worked toward African independence a century before it occurred. In his varied career, he served as a physician, an officer in the British Army, a banker, and a mining entrepreneur. In addition, he wrote a number of books and essays, the most widely remembered of which is his 1868 ''Vindication of the African Race'', an answer to the white racist authors emerging in Europe. His writings look ahead to African self-government, anticipating many events of the 1950s and 1960s, and Horton is often seen as one of the founders of African nationalism and has been called "the father of modern African political thought". He wrote a book entitled ''West African Countries and Peoples'' (1868). A crater on Mercury is named after him. ...
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Simon Gikandi
Simon may refer to: People * Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon * Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon * Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus authority ''Simon'' * Tribe of Simeon, one of the twelve tribes of Israel Places * Şimon ( hu, links=no, Simon), a village in Bran Commune, Braşov County, Romania * Șimon, a right tributary of the river Turcu in Romania Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Simon'' (1980 film), starring Alan Arkin * ''Simon'' (2004 film), Dutch drama directed by Eddy Terstall Games * ''Simon'' (game), a popular computer game * Simon Says, children's game Literature * ''Simon'' (Sutcliff novel), a children's historical novel written by Rosemary Sutcliff * Simon (Sand novel), an 1835 novel by George Sand * ''Simon Necronomicon'' (1977), a purported grimoire written by an unknown author, with an introduction by a man identified only as "Simon" ...
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List Of Sierra Leoneans
{{Short description, none This is a list of people from Sierra Leone who have articles on Wikipedia, or are unambiguously qualified for one. * Okere Adams *John Akar John Joseph Akar (1927–1975) was a Sierra Leonean entertainer, writer, and diplomat. He served as Sierra Leonean ambassador to the United States. Today, he is probably best known for composing the music of Sierra Leone's National Anthem. Ear ...

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 * Galesiti Baruti, novelist and academic * 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–) 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'' * ...
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Lenrie Peters
Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (1 September 1932 – 28 May 2009) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist. Biography Peters was born in 1931 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, Sierra Leone), 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 Cambri ...
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Abioseh Nicol
Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol or pen named Abioseh Nicol (14 September 1924 – 20 September 1994) was a Sierra Leone Creole academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet. 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 African to graduate with first class honours from the University of Cambridge and he was also the first African elected as a fellow of a college of Cambridge University. Davidson Nicol also contributed to medical science when he was the first to analyse the breakdown of insulin in the human body, a discovery which was a breakthrough for the treatment of diabetes. Early life Nicol was born as Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol on 14 September 1924 in Bathurst, Sierra Leone, to Jonothan Josibiah Nicol. He taught at the Prince of Wales School in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, and studied on a scholarship at Christ's Colleg ...
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Augustus Merriman-Labor
Augustus Boyle Chamberlayne Merriman‐Labor, who later took the name Ohlohr Maigi (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 which 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 ignorant and out- ...
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Ambrose Massaquoi
Ambrose of Milan ( la, Aurelius Ambrosius; ), venerated as Saint Ambrose, ; lmo, Sant Ambroeus . 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 the Christian faith 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 preachings, 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 ...
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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 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 Syracuse University, studied International and Comparative Law at Vermont Law School, and is a member of the Washington, DC, bar association, among other qualif ...
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