Author · Sierra Leone
Lemuel Johnson
Died in 2002
Lemuel Adolphus Johnson was born on 15 December 1941 in Maiduguri, in northern Nigeria, to Creole parents from Sierra Leone, and attended secondary school at the Sierra Leone Grammar School. A graduate of Oberlin College, he obtained a master's degree in Spanish at Pennsylvania State University and a doctorate in comparative literature at the University of Michigan, where he made his career and directed the Center for Afro-American and African Studies from 1985 to 1991. President of the African Literature Association, he also translated Rafael Alberti, and died in Michigan on 12 March 2002.
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- PoetryHighlife for CalibanLemuel Johnson · 1973Literature