List of Sierra Leonean writers

This is a list of Sierra Leonean writers.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

• John Akar (1927–1975), broadcaster, playwright and diplomat ^[Jahn]
• Gaston Bart-Williams (1938–1990), exiled writer and journalist ^[Jahn]
• 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 ^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet also associated with Ghana ^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945/47), poet, journalist and novelist ^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Robert Wellesley-Cole (1907–1995), surgeon and autobiographical writer ^[Jahn]
• William Conton (1925–2003), educator, historian, and novelist also associated with The Gambia ^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• R. Sarif Easmon (1913–1997), doctor, playwright and novelist ^{[Gikandi] [Jahn] [Killam & Rowe]}
• 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. ^[1]
• Africanus Horton (1835–1883), Creole African nationalist writer ^[Jahn]
• Delia Jarrett-Macauley (living), academic and novelist ^[2]
• Lemuel A. Johnson (1940/41–2002), poet and academic ^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925–2020), academic and literary critic ^[Jahn]
• Joseph Ben Kaifala (living), historian, memoirist and human rights activist
• Yulisa Amadu Maddy (1936–2014), playwright, novelist, and choreographer ^{[Gikandi] [Jahn] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Ambrose Massaquoi (born 1964), poet, musician and educationist ^[Brown]
• Augustus Merriman-Labor (1877–1919), later took the name Ohlohr Maigi, barrister, writer and munitions worker ^[3]
• Abioseh Nicol (1924–1994), doctor and short story writer ^{[Gikandi] [Jahn] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), poet also associated with The Gambia ^[Gikandi]
• Ekundayo Rowe (born 1937), journalist and short-story writer ^[Jahn]

See also

• List of African writers by country
• List of Sierra Leoneans

References

1. Kamara, Sally (30 January 2017). "INTERVIEW WITH FREDDY WILL: AUTHOR, ENTREPRENEUR & ARTIST". irepsalone.com/. iRep Salone. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
2. "Award for Sierra Leone war novel", BBC News, 5 April 2006.
3. Danell Jones (2018). An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor. Hurst. ISBN   978-1-78738-076-9.

1. [Gikandi] Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge, 2002. ISBN   978-0-415-23019-3
2. [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
3. [Killam & Rowe]Douglas Killam & Ruth Rowe, eds, The Companion to African Literatures. James Currey & Indiana University Press, 2000. ISBN   0-253-33633-3
4. [Brown]Carolyn Brown, "Four Poets from the World". The Iowa Review 27, no. 2 (Summer–Fall 1997): 76–81.