Author · Sierra Leone
Thomas Decker
Died in 1978
Thomas Alexander Leighton Decker was born on 25 July 1916 in Calabar, Nigeria, to Sierra Leonean parents, and grew up in Freetown, where he studied at the Church Missionary Society secondary school and then trained as a teacher at Fourah Bay College. A journalist, editor of the Daily Guardian and later news editor, a linguist and a poet, he was one of the first to name the common language of the country Krio, which he defended as a language in its own right and not as a patois. Made an officer of the Order of the British Empire, he died in London on 7 September 1978.
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- TheatreJulius CaesarJuliohs SizaThomas Decker · 1964Literature