CONSTANCE AGATHA CUMMINGS JOHN MEMOIR OF A KRIO LEADER

CONSTANCE AGATHA CUMMINGS - JOHN
MEMOIRS OF A KRIO LEADER

WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND ANNOTATION BY
LARAY DENZER

HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE
IBADAN, NIGERIA
1995
FIRST EDITION

Constance Agatha Cummings John 1918-2000 educationist and politician, the first woman to hold elective office in British West Africa.

The autobiography of a lady who's victory in the election of a councillor of the Freetown City Council in 1938 heralded the entry of the West African woman into modern colonial public life.

CONTENTS INCLUDE:
Early years, a student abroad, entry to politics, return to America, Eleanor Roosevelt Preparatory School For Girls, the Sierra Leone Women's Movement. The Sierra Leone People's Party, the ambassador's wife. in Liberia, Mayor of Freetown, exile.
With an introduction appendix and bibliography, plus illustrations.

Signed by the author on front endpaper:
To dear Gen with love from Constance 15-12-96


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