Roland T. Dempster

Roland Tombekai Dempster was born in 1910 in Tosoh, on the shores of Lake Piso, in Grand Cape Mount County. Educated at the College of Monrovia and then in Sierra Leone, a journalist and civil servant, he taught Latin and world literature at the national university from 1948 to 1962 and was regarded as its national poet under President Tubman. In 1953 he published a satirical treatise on morality, set in an imaginary nation resembling his own, co-edited in 1947 an anthology of Liberian poems with two colleagues, wrote patriotic songs and chaired the writers' association. He died in 1965.

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• PoetryA Song Out of MidnightRoland T. Dempster · 1960Literature