Lullaby

Gladys Casely-Hayford, read by Newgatenovelist (LibriVox)

“Lullaby” is a Fante mother telling her baby boy to sleep before the moonlight steals him away. Published in The Crisis in March 1929. “Bibini” is Fante for baby boy. 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.