From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of
Sierra Leonean writers.
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John Akar (1927–1975), broadcaster, playwright and diplomat
[Jahn]
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Gaston Bart-Williams (1938–1990), exiled writer and journalist
[Jahn]
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Ishmael Beah (born 1980), child soldier and memoirist
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Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912), pan-Africanist, born in the
Virgin Islands (see also
Liberia)
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Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868–1960), short story writer and educator
[Gikandi]
[Killam & Rowe]
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Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet also associated with
Ghana
[Gikandi]
[Killam & Rowe]
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Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945/47), poet, journalist and novelist
[Gikandi]
[Killam & Rowe]
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Robert Wellesley-Cole (1907–1995), surgeon and autobiographical writer
[Jahn]
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William Conton (1925–2003), educator, historian, and novelist also associated with
The Gambia
[Gikandi]
[Killam & Rowe]
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R. Sarif Easmon (1913–1997), doctor, playwright and novelist
[Gikandi]
[Jahn]
[Killam & Rowe]
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Aminatta Forna (born 1964), memoirist and novelist
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Namina Forna (born 1987), novelist and screen writer
- Wilfred
Freddy Will Kanu Jr. (born 1977) author, poet, lyricist, hip-hop emcee and blogger.
[1]
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Africanus Horton (1835–1883), Creole African nationalist writer
[Jahn]
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Delia Jarrett-Macauley (living), academic and novelist
[2]
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Lemuel A. Johnson (1940/41–2002), poet and academic
[Gikandi]
[Killam & Rowe]
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Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925–2020), academic and literary critic
[Jahn]
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Joseph Ben Kaifala (living), historian, memoirist and human rights activist
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Yulisa Amadu Maddy (1936–2014), playwright, novelist, and choreographer
[Gikandi]
[Jahn]
[Killam & Rowe]
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Ambrose Massaquoi (born 1964), poet, musician and educationist
[Brown]
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Augustus Merriman-Labor (1877–1919), later took the name Ohlohr Maigi, barrister, writer and munitions worker
[3]
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Abioseh Nicol (1924–1994), doctor and short story writer
[Gikandi]
[Jahn]
[Killam & Rowe]
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Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), poet also associated with
The Gambia
[Gikandi]
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Ekundayo Rowe (born 1937), journalist and short-story writer
[Jahn]
See also
References
[Jahn]
Janheinz Jahn, Ulla Schild & Almut Nordmann Seiler, eds,
Who's Who in African Literature: Biographies, Works, Commentaries. Horst Erdmann Verlag, 1972.
ISBN
978-3-7711-0153-4[Brown] Carolyn Brown, "Four Poets from the World".
The Iowa Review 27, no. 2 (Summer–Fall 1997): 76–81.