About the Author

Author of five novels: Road to Freedom, Bittersweet, Redemption song, Joy Came in the Morning, Nanna, and of a biography. An African Treasure: In Search of Gladys Casely-Hayford, 1904-1950. Yema Lucilda Hunter was born and grew up in Freetown, Sierra Leone. She had her secondary education at the Annie Walsh Memorial School in Freetown, completed her studies in the United Kingdom and became a chartered librarian. She was for many years librarian at the Connaught Hospital Freetown, before taking up an appointment at the Regional Office for Africa of the World Health Organisation in Congo Brazzaville. Now retired and a grandmother, she lives with her Husband, Kobi in Accra, Ghana.