Gladys Casely-Hayford
Gladys May Casely-Hayford alias Aquah Laluah (11 May 1904, Axim - October 1950, Freetown) was a Sierra Leonean writer, daughter of Adelaide Casely-Hayford. She started the Krio language literature.[1]
She studied in Ghana and Wales, danced with a Berlin jazz band, and returning to Africa taught at her mother's Girls' Vocational School in Freetown. Her first poems were published in the Atlantic Monthly and The Philadelphia Tribune.[2] Her poetry has been widely anthologized.[3]
Notes
- ^ Cary Nelson, "Gladys May Casely-Hayford (Aquah LaLuah) (1904-1950)", Modern American Poetry.
- ^ Chipasula, Stella; Chipasula, Frank Mkalawile, eds. (1995). The Heinemann Book of African women's Poetry. Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-435-90680-1. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ See Countee Cullen, ed., Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, 1927; Langston Hughes, ed., Poetry of the Negro World, 1949; African Treasury, 1960; Poems from Black Africa, 1963; Langston Hughes and Christiane Reynault, eds., Antologie Africaine et Malgache; Margaret Busby, ed, Daughters of Africa, 1992..
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