Baby Cobina

Gladys Casely-Hayford, read by Newgatenovelist (LibriVox)

“Baby Cobina” is about the brass bells tied on a baby's ankles as a charm against harm. Published in 1927. Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950) was a poet whose mother was a Krio educator from Freetown. She taught at the Girls' Vocational School in Freetown and wrote some of her poems in Krio. This reading is by a LibriVox volunteer.