A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF J.E. CASELY HAYFORD

Born in Cape Coast (now Ghana) in 1866, Joseph Ephraim Casely is a lawyer, journalist, writer, politician, and a pan Africanist. Growing up, Casely Hayford attended Wesley Boys’ High School and also Fourah Bay College, Freetown. In Freetown, he was attracted to and fascinated by the teachings and ideas of Edward Wilmot Blyden, who was a pivotal figure in the history of Pan-Africanism. As a journalist, Casely Hayford worked with Western Echo, and later with Wesleyan Methodist Times. Aside being a journalist, he was an unrepentant pan-Africanist. A major force in the fight against imperialism in Africa, Casely Hayford’s teachings and ideologies reinforce and support the unalloyed propagation of Africa’s ways of governance, Africa’s ways of living, which also cuts across land management, the belief in culture and traditions, etc.