Writer
1916–1978
A linguist, poet and journalist who argued that Krio is a language in its own right. He wrote in the Freetown papers from 1939 and translated Shakespeare's Julius Caesar into Krio.
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Are Day Go Up
A Krio poem, named in the journal Africa's study of his work
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