Yema Lucilda Hunter
Lucilda Hunter, née Caulker (born 1943) is a Sierra Leonean librarian, novelist and biographer who writes under the name Yema Lucilda Hunter.[1]
Life
Yema Lucilda Hunter was born in 1943 in Freetown.[1] She was educated at the Annie Walsh Memorial School,[2] before undertaking university study in England. She gained a BA from the University of Reading in 1964, a post-graduate diploma in librarianship from North-Western Polytechnic in 1966, and a master's degree in philosophy from Loughborough University.[1]
Hunter has worked as a librarian at the Sierra Leone Library Board, in the Medical Library at Connaught Hospital in Freetown, and with the World Health Organization in Brazzaville.[1] She took early retirement in 1999, and that year was made a fellow of the British Library Association. She lives with her husband in Accra, Ghana.[2]
Works
- Road to freedom, 1982
- Mother and daughter: memoirs and poems, 1983
- Bittersweet, 1989
- An African treasure: in search of Gladys Casely-Hayford, 1904-1950, 2008
- Builders: the Annie Walsh story, 1849-2009, 2009
- Nanna, 2014
- Her name was Aina: a historical novel, 2018
References
- Jones, Wilma L., Twenty Contemporary African Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliography, 1995. Accessed 15 February 2020.
- Lucilda Hunter, Sierra Leonean Writers Series. Accessed 15 Febraary 2020.