Poet
1941–2002
Born to Sierra Leonean parents in Nigeria, he went to the Sierra Leone Grammar School and became a professor at the University of Michigan. His Sierra Leone Trilogy is three books of poems; the second, Hand on the Navel, remembers the Royal West African Frontier Force in the two world wars.
Source ↗Books
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Highlife for Caliban
Lemuel A. Johnson
1973
Ardis; reissued 1995 by Africa World Press in the Sierra Leone Trilogy
Hand on the Navel
Lemuel A. Johnson
1978
Ardis; reissued 1995 by Africa World Press in the Sierra Leone Trilogy
Carnival of the Old Coast
Lemuel A. Johnson
1995
Africa World Press, Sierra Leone Trilogy
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