J. E. Casely Hayford

Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford, MBE ( born September 29, 1866 in Cape Coast, † August 11, 1930 ), a Ghanaian politician, lawyer, writer and Panafrikanist was.

Casely Hayford was born in Cape Coast in the then British colony of the Gold Coast; African names Ekra Agyiman he received from his father, a Reverend of the Fante tribe; Casely Hayford but used it rarely.

After basic training in Cape Coast, he traveled to Sierra Leone, where they can complete at Fourah Bay College, which he was not able. He went back to the Gold Coast to work there as a teacher in Cape Coast and Accra. Meanwhile, he discovered an interest in a law degree and dislocated in 1893 to England. He settled in London and trained as a lawyer in 1896 returned back to the Gold Coast.

In 1920 he founded the " National Congress of British West Africa" ​​( National Congress of British West Africa ), but which, after his death in 1930 lost its stability and was soon dissolved.

The novel Ethiopia Unbound influenced the Jamaican revolutionary and Pan-Africanists Marcus Garvey, which in turn influenced the Rastafarians prevail.

Works

• With Thoughts upon a Healthy Imperial Policy for the Gold Coast and Ashanti (1903 )
• Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911, reissued 1969)
• The Truth about the West African Land Question ( 1913)
• United West Africa ( 1919)