The African by William Conton

A young man's journey through colonial-era education and into the rising tide of African nationalism, published as Sierra Leone approached independence. Tracking its protagonist from village schooling through the racial and administrative obstacles of a colonial education system and into the political awakening of the independence era, the novel was one of the earliest Sierra Leonean works to reach an international audience, published in Heinemann's influential African Writers Series. It captures the particular optimism and frustration of a generation educated to serve a colonial system that was, even as the book was being written, beginning to dissolve, and remains a foundational text for understanding the country's early literary tradition.

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