Sierra Leone All works

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• EssayWest African Countries and PeoplesJames Africanus Beale Horton · 1868A work that answers Victorian scholars on their own ground and proposes, as early as the nineteenth century, the government of Africans by themselves.Literature
• TaleCunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other BeefFlorence Cronise and Henry Ward · 1903The tales of the children of a mission school, in Temne country, written down in the language in which they told them.Literature
• EssayBritons Through Negro SpectaclesAugustus Merriman-Labor · 1909The London of 1909 described by a colonised man who adopts the tone of the explorers and applies their methods to their own country.Literature
• Short storiesMista CouriferAdelaide Casely-Hayford · 1960An Anglomaniac father and his son, in the Creole Freetown of the fifties.Literature
• NovelThe AfricanWilliam Conton · 1960An African scholarship student in England, between an impossible love and the politics of his country.Literature
• NarrativeKossoh Town BoyRobert Wellesley Cole · 1960A Creole childhood in the capital of a British colony, told by the man it produced, on the eve of independence.Literature
• TheatreDear Parent and OgreRaymond Sarif Easmon · 1964A drawing-room comedy in the high society of the capital, in which a marriage plan tests a family's caste spirit.Literature
• TheatreJulius CaesarJuliohs SizaThomas Decker · 1964The tragedy of Julius Caesar rendered in the Creole of Freetown, to prove that it could say everything.Literature
• Short storiesThe Truly Married Woman and Other StoriesAbioseh Nicol · 1965Seven West African stories of quiet irony, in which what decides a life often comes down to very little.Literature
• EssayOthello's CountrymenEldred Durosimi Jones · 1965A Sierra Leonean critic's book on how Shakespeare and his contemporaries saw Africa.Literature
• NovelNo Past, No Present, No FutureYulisa Amadu Maddy · 1973Three boys from the same West African childhood, each put to the test separately by departure for Europe.Literature
• PoetryHighlife for CalibanLemuel Johnson · 1973Poems that take the figures bequeathed by English literature and set them dancing to West African cabaret music.Literature
• TheatreThe Blood of a StrangerDele Charley · 1977A white man who has come to seek a village's diamonds, and the notables who help him there, under British administration.Literature
• TheatreLet Me Die AloneJohn Kolosa Kargbo · 1979A Mende chiefdom under British protectorate, where a woman takes over the power of a dead man and must hold it against her own people.Literature
• NovelRoad to FreedomYema Lucilda Hunter · 1982The founding of Freetown, told by a little girl who came from Nova Scotia with the Black settlers.Literature
• NovelThe Last Harmattan of Alusine DunbarSyl Cheney-Coker · 1990Two centuries of an imaginary West African country founded by freed slaves, held together by the visions of a seer.Literature
• TheatreThe Broken HandcuffRaymond de'Souza George · 1994A Sierra Leonean theatrical fresco linking the slave trade and its revolts to the country's present.Literature

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