Yema Lucilda Hunter

Lucilda Hunter, née Caulker (15 July 1943 – 21 August 2022) was a Sierra Leonean librarian, novelist and biographer, who wrote under the name Yema Lucilda Hunter.[1]

Yema Lucilda Hunter
Born
Yema Lucilda Caulker

15 July 1943
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Died21 August 2022(2022-08-21) (aged 78–79)
EducationAnnie Walsh Memorial School
Alma materUniversity of Reading; North-Western Polytechnic; Loughborough University
Occupation(s)Librarian, novelist and biographer
FamilyCaulker family of Sierra Leone

Life

Yema Lucilda Hunter was born on 15 July 1943 in Freetown,[1] to parents Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker (the first African principal of the Albert Academy, who later became a diplomat, serving as Sierra Leone High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to the United States) and Olivette Hannah Stuart (from a prominent African-Caribbean family, whose grandfather, Melvin Stuart, came from the Bahamas in 1878 to work for the colonial administration).[2] She was educated at the Annie Walsh Memorial School,[3] before undertaking university studies in England. She gained a BA degree 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,[3] where she died, aged 79, on 21 August 2022.[2]

Works
  • 1982.  Road to Freedom.  Ibadan: African Universities Press. (Later reissued in 2016 as Finding Freedom.)
  • 1989.  Bittersweet.  London: Macmillan.
  • 2006.  Redemption Song.  Freetown: Sierra Leonean Writers Series.
  • 2012.  Joy Came in the Morning, typewritten pre-publication circulation of Chapter One.
  • 2013.  Joy Came in the Morning. Accra: Sierra Leonean Writers Series.
  • 2014.  Nanna.  Sierra Leonean Writers Series.
  • 2015.  An African Treasure: In Search of Gladys Casely-Hayford. Freetown: Sierra Leonean Writers Series.
  • 2018. Her Name Was Aina.  Freetown: Sierra Leonean Writers Series.
  • 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. Kanu, Kabs (25 August 2022). "Obituary : Lucilda Hunter". Cocorioko. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  3. Lucilda Hunter, Sierra Leonean Writers Series. Accessed 15 February 2020.
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