Syl Cheney-Coker

Syl Cheney-Coker was born on 28 June 1945 in Freetown, into a Creole family. Having left for the United States in 1966, he studied in California, Oregon and Wisconsin, taught at the University of the Philippines and then at the University of Maiduguri, in Nigeria, and was writer in residence in Iowa. Back in Freetown in the early nineties, he edited the newspaper Vanguard; targeted as a dissident after the military coup of 1997, he narrowly escaped death and became, thanks to Wole Soyinka, the first writer hosted by the Cities of Asylum programme in Las Vegas. He returned home in 2003.

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• NovelThe Last Harmattan of Alusine DunbarSyl Cheney-Coker · 1990Literature