Writer
1924–1994
Davidson Abioseh Nicol, born in Bathurst village near Freetown, was a physician, the first Sierra Leonean principal of Fourah Bay College and later an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. His poems appeared in anthologies of African verse rather than a book of his own.
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The Meaning of Africa
Anthologies of African verse from the late 1950s, sometimes as “The Continent That Lies Within Us”; in Langston Hughes's Poems from Black Africa (1963)
African Easter
Anthologies of African verse
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