Poet
Resident playwright of the Bai Bureh Theatre in the 1980s, when his plays were staged at the City Hall in Freetown. He then turned to journalism, writing for newspapers at home and abroad.
Source ↗Books
We don't sell them: we only point to where to borrow or buy them.
The Edge of a Cry
Oumar Farouk Sesay
2016
Sierra Leonean Writers Series
Salute to the Remains of a Peasant
Oumar Farouk Sesay
2007
Broken Metaphor
Oumar Farouk Sesay
2017
Before the Twisted Rib
Oumar Farouk Sesay
2019
400 Years of Servitude
Oumar Farouk Sesay
2020
Other poems
Their words are held back until we have permission to print them, or until we've found the whole poem.
The Look
Quoted in an interview with Poda-Poda Stories, 2020
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