Syl Cheney Coker

Syl Cheney Coker ( born 1945 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a writer.

His most important work, published in 1996, is the novel The Nubians. The work was awarded as one of the 100 best novels in Africa.

Quote

" As a poet, lonely in my country, I examined the probabilities of life, the fire of images, the poison of the verses. My country, you are my heartbeat, living like a devastated landscape. "

Works

• Concerto for at Exile. Poetry 1973.
• The Graveyard So Has Teeth. Poetry 1980.
• The Blood in the Desert 's Eye. Poetry 1990.
• The Nubians. Novel 1996.
• The Silence of Memory. In 1998.