William Conton

William Farquhar Conton was born on 5 September 1925 in Bathurst, present-day Banjul, in the Gambia, into a Sierra Leonean Creole family of Caribbean origin. A history graduate of Durham University in 1947, he taught for six years at Fourah Bay College, headed the secondary school in Accra and then two secondary schools in Sierra Leone, became head of the country's education service and later worked for UNESCO in Paris. A historian, he published in 1961 a two-volume history of the West African region. He died in Freetown in 2003.

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• NovelThe AfricanWilliam Conton · 1960Literature