Gladys Casely-Hayford’s Poetic Sensibility
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 20
Gladys Casely-Hayford’s Poetic Sensibility
Born in Ghana in 1950 and educated in Ghana, the Sierra Leone, and England, Gladys Casely-Hayford is important in African poetics, not only because she is a strong voice among the poets generally considered as the “pioneer poets,”1 but because the issues she addresses in her work—Christianity, colonialism, nature, and the enjoyment of life’s blessings-- are still relevant today in the past of her work and that of her contemporaries-- which include R.E.G. Armattoe, Dennis Osadebay, and Michael Dei-Anang-- D.R. Dathorne offers the following information: