Wilton Sankawulo

Wilton Gbakolo Sengbe Sankawulo was born in 1937 in Haindii, in lower Bong County, among the Kpelle, and was schooled in Lutheran missions. Entering Cuttington College in 1960, he published his first stories there in the college magazine, then studied theology at Berkeley and attended the writing workshop of the University of Iowa, from which he brought back a second master's degree. Back in his country, he worked in the information service and taught. In 1995, the factions of the civil war being in search of a man reputed to be honest, he chaired the transitional Council of State for a year. He died in Monrovia in 2009.

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• TaleThe Marriage of Wisdom and Other TalesWilton Sankawulo · 1974Literature