Library weekly: Adelaide Casely-Hayford

On 24 January 1960,  Sierra Leone Creole advocate, activist, teacher, fiction writer, and feminist, Adelaide Casely-Hayford passed away. Committed to public service, she worked to improve the conditions of black men and women. As a pioneer of women's education in Sierra Leone, she played a key role in popularizing Pan-Africanist and feminist politics in the early 1900s. Adelaide Casely-Hayford is featured in our library weekly.