Rayta
bɔn 1945
Born in Freetown in 1945, he spent most of his adult life abroad. In the early 1990s he came home to edit the Freetown newspaper Vanguard; after the 1997 coup he was targeted as a dissident and barely escaped. His novel The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa.
Usay wi fɛn am ↗In buk dɛn
Wi nɔ de sɛl dɛn: wi jɔs de sho yu usay fɔ bɔrɔ ɔ bay dɛn.
The Road to Jamaica
Syl Cheney-Coker
2015
Sierra Leonean Writers Series
His first collection, written in the 1960s and held back for over forty years.
Concerto for an Exile
Syl Cheney-Coker
1973
Heinemann, African Writers Series
The Graveyard Also Has Teeth
Syl Cheney-Coker
1980
Heinemann, African Writers Series
The Blood in the Desert's Eyes
Syl Cheney-Coker
1990
Heinemann
Stone Child and Other Poems
Syl Cheney-Coker
2008
The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
Syl Cheney-Coker
1990
Heinemann
Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa, 1991
Ɔda pɔym dɛn
Wi de kip di wɔd dɛn te wi gɛt pamishɔn fɔ print dɛn, ɔ te wi fɛn di ɔl pɔym.
Freetown
Concerto for an Exile (1973)
The Breast of the Sea
Read by him in the documentary film The Poets (Chivas DeVinck, 2018), filmed in Sierra Leone
Rid am usay dɛn print am ↗Yu na Syl Cheney-Coker, ɔ in famili?
Wi go lɛk print wan pɔym ɔ wan pis frɔm yu buk ya, ɔ rikɔd yu de rid am lawd, wit link to di buk so pipul go bay am. Natin nɔ go ɔp te yu gri na rayt: wan imel fɔ se yɛs du.
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