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    A Study Guide for Adelaide Casely-Hayford's "Mista Courifer"
    A Study Guide for Adelaide Casely-Hayford's "Mista Courifer"
    A Study Guide for Adelaide Casely-Hayford's "Mista Courifer"
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    A Study Guide for Adelaide Casely-Hayford's "Mista Courifer"

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    A Study Guide for Adelaide Casely-Hayford's "Mista Courifer," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535828727
    A Study Guide for Adelaide Casely-Hayford's "Mista Courifer"

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      A Study Guide for Adelaide Casely-Hayford's "Mista Courifer" - Gale

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      Mista Courifer

      Adelaide Casely-Hayford

      1960

      Introduction

      Adelaide Casely-Hayford was a Sierra Leonean feminist, activist, educator, philanthropist, writer, and advocate of African unity. She did not start writing until later in her life, producing a memoir and a handful of short stories. Mista Courifer is the best-known work of her fiction writing. The story was first published in a 1960 anthology of writings by black Africans called An African Treasury, edited by Langston Hughes.

      Set in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in the 1950s, the story explores how the presence of British culture in the city influences one Sierra Leonean family. Casely-Hayford uses wit and situational irony to demonstrate how a father and son adhere to and stray from social conventions. The work has been well received by critics for its simultaneously subtle and incisive exploration of culture.

      Author Biography

      Casely-Hayford was born as Adelaide Smith on June 2, 1868, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to William Smith, Jr., and Anne Spilsbury. Her father was of English and royal Fanti parentage, and her mother was a Creole of English, Jamaican Maroon, and Sierra Leone liberated African heritage. Her wealthy family was part of the Creole elite in Freetown. When Casely-Hayford was four years old, her family migrated to England, where she spent the majority of her youth. Casely-Hayford's mother died in England when Casely-Hayford was still very young. She was mainly raised by her father, who made sure that she received a strong education. At the age of seventeen, she left to study music in Germany, but a few years later she returned to her family in England.

      When Casely-Hayford was twenty-four, she moved back to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to start a teaching career. After a few years, she moved back to England to open a boarding home for African bachelors with her sister. In England, she married Joseph Ephraim Casely-Hayford, an advocate of Pan-Africanism and cultural nationalism, after a very brief courtship. It is probable that her husband's influence contributed to Casely-Hayford's later career as a Pan-African nationalist. Their

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