Yema Lucilda Hunter

Author of four previously published novels: Road to Freedom, Bittersweet, Redemption Song, Joy Came in the Morning, and of a biography, An African Treasure: In Search of Gladys Casely-Hayford 1904-1950, Yema Lucilda Hunter was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where she received her early education. She later studied in Britain and qualified as a librarian, eventually specialising in medical librarianship and information for health workers. She was, for many years, the librarian at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown, before taking up an appointment at the Regional Office for Africa of the World Health Organization in Congo, Brazzaville. She currently lives with her husband in Accra, Ghana.