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Sierra Leone

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Yema Lucilda Hunter

Died in 2022

Yema Lucilda Hunter, née Caulker, was born on 15 July 1943 in Freetown, the daughter of the educator and diplomat Richard Kelfa-Caulker, the first African headmaster of the Albert Academy. A pupil at the Annie Walsh school, she studied in England, at Reading and then in librarianship, was a medical librarian at Connaught Hospital in Freetown, and then headed the library and health information service of the World Health Organization regional office for Africa, in Brazzaville. A novelist and biographer, daughter-in-law of the poet Gladys Casely-Hayford, she died in Accra on 21 August 2022.

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