Adelaide Casely-Hayford

Adelaide Smith was born in June 1868 in Freetown, into a Creole family of English, Fanti, Hausa and Maroon ancestry. Brought up in England, a pupil at the girls' college in Jersey, she studied music in Stuttgart, married in 1903 the Gold Coast Pan-Africanist lawyer J. E. Casely Hayford, from whom she separated in 1914, and returned to Sierra Leone. In 1923 she founded in Freetown a vocational school for girls, intended to give them a trade and pride in their culture, went to the United States to seek funds, sat on the colony's education board and died in Freetown in January 1960.

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• Short storiesMista CouriferAdelaide Casely-Hayford · 1960Literature