Cheney-Coker, Syl, 1945-

LC control no.	no 91002501
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR9393.9.C5
Personal name heading	Cheney-Coker, Syl, 1945- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Cheyney-Coker, Syl, 1945- Coker, Syl Cheney-, 1945-
Associated country	Sierra Leone
Birth date	1945
Place of birth	Freetown (Sierra Leone)
Affiliation	University of Oregon University of Wisconsin University of Maiduguri University of the Philippines
Profession or occupation	Poets Novelists Journalists Scholars
Found in	His The graveyard also has teeth, c1980: t.p. (Syl Cheney-Coker) p. 4 of cover (b. 1945, Freetown, Sierra Leone, journalist and university teacher) His Concerto for an exile, 1973: t.p. (Syl Cheyney-Coker) p. 4 of cover (b. 1945, Freetown, Sierra Leone) LC in OCLC, 1-31-91 (hdg.: Cheyney-Coker, Syl, 1945-; usage: Syl Cheyney-Coker) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cheney-Coker, Syl; poet, fiction writer, journalist, literary scholar; born 1945 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He studied at the University of Oregon and University of Wisconsin, and taught at the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria and at the University of the Philippines. He was a journalist and editor of the radical newspaper, The Vanguard, Sierra Leone, and published three books of poetry. He won the African Commonwealth Writer's Prize (1991))