Yema Lucilda Hunter

Lucilda Hunter, née Caulker (1943 – August 21, 2022) was a Sierra Leonean librarian, novelist and biographer who wrote 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 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 Library Association. She lived with her husband in Accra, Ghana.[2]

Works

Hunter, Yema Lucilda, 1982.  Road to Freedom.  Ibadan: African Universities Press. (Later reissued in 2016 as Finding Freedom).

Hunter, Yema Lucilda, 1989.  Bittersweet.  London: Macmillan.

Hunter, Yema Lucilda, 2006.  Redemption Song.  Freetown: Sierra Leonean Writers Series.

Hunter, Yema Lucilda, 2012.  Joy Came in the Morning, typewritten pre-publication circulation

            of Chapter One.

Hunter, Yema Lucilda, 2013.  Joy Came in the Morning. Accra: Sierra Leonean Writers Series.

Hunter, Yema Lucilda, 2014.  Nanna.  Sierra Leonean Writers Series.

Hunter, Yema Lucilda, 2015.  An African Treasure: In Search of Gladys Casely-Hayford.  

            Freetown: Sierra Leonean Writers Series.

Hunter, Yema Lucilda, 2018. Her Name Was Aina.  Freetown: Sierra Leonean Writers Series.

Hunter, Yema Lucilda, 2022.  Deep Waters. Freetown: Sierra Leonean Writers Series.

References
  1. Jones, Wilma L., Twenty Contemporary African Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliography, 1995. Accessed 15 February 2020.
  2. Lucilda Hunter, Sierra Leonean Writers Series. Accessed 15 Febraary 2020.
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