Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango

Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango was a Sierra Leonean missionary and artist who was the first West African to earn a diploma from the Royal College of Arts. Simango was the niece of Adelaide Casely-Hayford and was a personal friend of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. She was also a member of the prominent Sierra Leone Creole Easmon family.

Early life

Kathleen Mary Easmon was born in 1892 as the younger of two children in Accra, Gold Coast to Dr John Farrell Easmon and Annette Kathleen Easmon, née Smith. She was married to Columbus Kamba Simango, an East African teacher educated at Columbia University.[1]

Education

Kathleen Easmon was educated at the Royal College of Arts.

Death

Kathleen Easmon died of appendicitis in 1924 in London, England.

Sources

  • M. C. F. Easmon, "A Nova Scotian Family", Eminent Sierra Leoneans in the nineteenth century (1961)
  • Dr. John Farrell Easmon: Medical Professionalism and Colonial Racism in the Gold Coast, 1856-1900, Adell Patton, Jr., The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4 (1989), pp. 601–636
  • Adell Patton Jr., "The Easmon Episode", Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa, pp. 93–122

References

  1. ↑ "Easmon Family History". Easmon Family History. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
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