Gladys Casley-Hayford
- Wɔatwerɛ nsɛm wei ɛwɔ Asante kasa mu
| sex or gender | female  |
|---|---|
| country of citizenship | Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate |
| birth name | Gladys May Casely-Hayford |
| given name | Gladys, May |
| pseudonym | Aquah Laluah |
| date of birth | 11 Kotonimma 1904 |
| place of birth | Axim |
| date of death | Ahinime 1950 |
| place of death | Nkran |
| manner of death | natural causes |
| cause of death | blackwater fever |
| father | J. E. Casely Hayford |
| maamɛ | Adelaide Casely-Hayford |
| sibling | Archie Casely-Hayford |
| native language | English |
| languages spoken, written or signed | English, Fante |
| occupation | writer, poet |
| personal pronoun | L484 |
Gladys May Casely-Hayford a wɔtaa frɛ no Awuah Laluah(Kɔtɔnimaa bosome da a ɛtɔ so du baako wɔ afe apem ahankron ne nan mu dekɔ ahinime bosome wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduonum mu) yɛ obi a wɔwoo no wɔ sika mpoano na ɔyɛ Sierra Leone ɔtwerɛfoɔ. Wagye no atom sɛ ɔnone ɔtwerɛfoɔ a ɔdikan twerɛɛ wɔ krio kasa mu.
Abrabɔ ahyɛaseɛ ne nwomasua[sesa]
Wɔwoo Gladys too Casely-Hayford abusua a ɛwɔ Axim, Gold Coast wɔ kɔtonimaa bosome da a ɛtɔ so du baako wɔ afe apem ahankron ne nan mu. Wɔ ne mmɔfra berɛ mu no na wɔfrɛ no Acquah Laluah, na nnwoma akenkan ho paa, na ɔdii mfeɛ nson na ɔsɛe Charles Kingsley. Na ɔtumi to dwom, sa, na ɔtwerɛ anwonsɛm wɔ ne mmɔfra berɛ mu. Ɛnam ne nteteeɛ pa mu no nti na ɔtumi ka borɔfa kasa, creole ne Fante kasa yie(a ɛyɛ ne papa kasa). Ɔkɔɔ ne mmɔtafowa ne ne ntoasoɔ sukuu wɔ Gold Coast [1]nanso ɛnam n'apomuden nsɛm nti wɔde no kɔɔ England na ɔkɔɔ sukuu wɔ Europe, [2]a Penrhos College,Colwyn Bay a ɛwɔ wales ka ho, na ɔne nnwomkuo bi a wɔfrɛ no Berlin Jazz tuu kwan sɛ obi a ɔsa.[1] Ɔsane kɔɔ US nso.[2] Ɛnam sɛ na nnoɔma nkɔ yie mma no wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduasa mmienu nti no, [3]na ɛwɔ sɛ ɔba fie. Ɔbaa abibiman mu no, ɔkyerɛɛ adeɛ wɔ Girls Vocational sukuu a na ɛwɔ Freetown, Sierra Leone, a na ɔmaame Adelaide Casely-Hayford na ɛda ano.
N'abrabɔ ne adwuma[sesa]
Acquah Laluah waree Arthur Hunter.[3] Wɔ sukuu mu no ɔkyerɛɛ abibirem anansesɛm ne kasadwini. Na ɔnim n'abibirem ho nsɛnsɛm nti,ɔdii anwonsɛm da a 'Rejoice' ne "Nativity" ka ho. Ɛwɔm sɛ ɛnnyɛ n'anwonsɛm no nyinaa na wɔdaa no adi maa amansan hunuui wɔ ne pɛn so, ɛnyɛ n'anwonsɛm no nyinaa na wɔboa ano wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduosia mu. [2]Anwonsɛm bi te sɛ "Nativity" wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduonu nson, "The Serving Girl' wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduanan baako ne "creation" wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduonu nsia, na wɔkabom; atwerɛfoɔ a wɔfiri Harlem Renaissance anigyee n'adwuma no ho.[4]
Ne wuo[sesa]
Gladys Casely Hayford tenaa Freetown, Sierra Leone pii wɔ n'asetena mu. Ɔtu kɔɔ Nkran beaɛ a ne papa abusuafoɔ te, ɛna ɛhɔ na ɔnyaa blackwater Fever a ɔwui wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduonum.[3]
Adwuma[sesa]
- Take'Um So, wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduanan nnwɔtwe (1948)(anwonsɛm)
Beaɛ a menyaa mmoa firiiɛ[sesa]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chipasula
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Killam, Douglas; Kerfoot, Alicia L., eds. (2008). "Casely-Hayford, Gladys (1904-1950)". Student Encyclopedia of African Literature. Westport: Greenwood. pp. 79–80. ISBN 9780313335808
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 http://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/casely-hayford-gladys-1904-1950
- ↑ 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 Reyngault, eds, Anthologie Africaine et Malgache, 1962; Margaret Busby, ed., Daughters of Africa, 1992.