Storyteller
1868–1960
A teacher and fiction writer who in 1923 founded the Girls' Vocational School in Freetown. Her best-known story, “Mista Courifer”, pokes fun at a Freetown man who loves everything English. The poet Gladys Casely-Hayford was her daughter.
Source ↗Other writing
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Mista Courifer
An African Treasury, ed. Langston Hughes, 1960
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