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Hayford, J. E. Casely (Joseph Ephraim Casely), 1866-1930

LC control no.n 50025037
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LC classificationPR9379.9.H38
Personal name headingHayford, J. E. Casely (Joseph Ephraim Casely), 1866-1930
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Variant(s)Hayford, Joseph Ephraim Casely, 1866-1930
Hayford, Casely, 1866-1930
Ekra-Agiman, 1866-1930
Casely Hayford, J. E. (Joseph Ephraim), 1866-1930
Biography/History note1866-1930; M.B.E., M.L.C.
Associated countryGhana
Associated placeEngland
Birth date1866
Death date1930
Place of birthCape Coast (Ghana)
Place of deathGhana
AffiliationFourah Bay College University of Cambridge
National Congress of British West Africa (Organization) Aborigines' Rights Protection Society (Organization)
Profession or occupationPoliticians Lawyers Journalists Humanists
Special noteOld catalog heading: Hayford, Casely
Found inHis Gold Coast native institutions, 1903.
Writings of Ekra-Agiman (J. E. Casely Hayford), 2003.
Ethiopia unbound, 1969: p. vii ff. (Casely Hayford) t.p. of original (Casely Hayford)
Wikipedia, via WWW, May 18, 2012 (Joseph Ephraim Casely-Hayford MBE or Ekra-Agiman (29 Sept. 1866-11 Aug. 1930) was a Fante journalist, author, lawyer, educator, and politician who supported pan-African nationalism; b. in Cape Coast, in the British Gold Coast colony, now Ghana; son, Archie Casely-Hayford; second wife, Adelaid Casely-Hayford (née Smith))
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed January 15, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Casely Hayford, Joseph Ephraim; J. E. Casely Hayford; political figure, lawyer, journalist, humanist; born 1866 in Cape Coast, Ghana; student at Fourah Bay College in Freetown, Sierra Leone; studied law at Cambridge University and became a practicing lawyer in Ghana (1896); was a leading Gold Coast nationalist figure (1910-1930); co-founded and led the National Congress of British West Africa (1920); belonged to Aborigines' Rights Protection Society; died 1930 in Ghana)