Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A New Publication : My Epic Journey: The Making of a cosmopolitan - A memoir by Eustace Palmer

I was friends with lem Johnson, a man I considered one of the most brilliant scholars of African literature, period. He was one of the most erudite and eloquent people I ever knew as well. I treasured lem and mourn his passing to this day.

Ken

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Professor Eustace James Taiwo Palmer is indeed a pioneer.

The only other Sierra Leonean autobiography that I'm aware of is Kossoh Town Boy by  Robert Wellesley Cole.

There's also, of course,  Old Man Trouble by Ernest Marke which more or less starts with his demobilisation at Liverpool after the first world war, after fighting heroically for  King and  British Empire. He talks about the first race riot in Britain, at Notting Hill, shortly thereafter. 

Now that everybody or almost everybody in the US and those who carved up Africa at the Berlin Conference of 1984 - 1985  is huffing and puffing about the referendum and annexation of Eastern Ukraine, just this stray thought ( like a stray bullet): 

Nobody asked us or held a referendum about whether or not African on the African Continent wanted to be colonised or not. The Pilgrim Fathers of course did not hold a referendum to ascertain whether or not the Native Americans wanted to hand over their land to them. I suppose that if such a referendum had been held, by now Uncle Sam would be discussing at the Security Council with Russia, China, France,  China, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland about a two-state solution for North America:  one for the Native Americans and the other for the immigrants, to live in peace and tranquillity forever…

Was Professor Harrow by any chance friends with Professor Lemuel Johnson?

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On Friday, 30 September 2022 at 15:31:12 UTC+2 Kenneth Harrow wrote:

He was one of the pioneers

Ken

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i recall his book on the African novel

On Thu, 29 Sept 2022 at 13:32, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:

A New Publication: My Epic Journey: The Making of a cosmopolitan -  A memoir by Eustace Palmer

Yesterday, I was happy to visit  Doc P's Facebook page and voila - there it was, the good news. 

It promises to be a voyage of self-discovery - a classic and a most distinguished place in the canons of the autobiographical….

Might Congratulations Sir! 

As said earlier in this forum,  the young Eustace Palmer was my pen friend  when he was a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh and I was in the second form at the Prince of Wales School;  his younger brother Alongo Palmer was also my friend classmate then

Personally, I place Dr P at the apex of the English Novel criticism  -and by extension, the African Novel written in English.

Nuff said.

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