Edna Elliott-Horton
Sierra Leonean | |
|---|---|
| Education | University of Cambridge, Boston College |
Edna Elliott-Horton (13 September 1904 – 26 March 1994) was the second West African woman from a
liberal arts, after graduating from Howard University in 1932,[2] where Dr. Edward Mayfield Boyle, her maternal uncle, had graduated as a medical doctor. Elliott-Horton was a political activist who challenged the colonial authorities in Sierra Leone through her participation in the West African Youth League
which was formally established in her living-room.
Background
Edna Elliott-Horton was born on 13 September 1904 in
Nova Scotian Settlers who were the original founders of the 1792 Sierra Leone Colony
.
Elliott-Horton's mother was descended from the
African-American district of Freetown
.
She was elected as assistant organising secretary of the West African Youth League.[4]
Personal life
Edna Elliott-Horton was married to Moses Horton, a
Jamaican Maroon
descent and the couple had a daughter, Dr Regina Mosena Horton.
References
- ^ "CAS Students to Lead Seminar On University's African Alumni, Pt. IV: Agnes Yewande Savage". Postgrads from the Edge. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ^ Adell Patton, Physicians, Colonial Racism and Diaspora in West Africa, University Press of Florida, 1996, p. 199.
- ^ Patton, 1996, p. 154.
- Paul Richards; Christopher Fyfe (eds), Sierra Leone, 1787-1987: Two Centuries of Intellectual Life (special edition of Africa, journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 57, No. 4), Manchester University Press, 1987, p. 443.
Sources
- Adell Patton, Physicians, Colonial Racism and Diaspora in West Africa, Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996. ISBN 978-0813014326.