![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon her father's death at the age of four, Guanya Pau was betrothed to a man called Kai Kundu who paid a handsome sum of money for her future hand in marriage. The story begins with a descriptive introduction to a tribe of people called the Vey (today called the 'Vai'), of which Guanya Pau is a part, daughter of a chief of a town called Gallenah. He began teaching at the Cape Mount Mission in 1894 but died in November of the same year.Īs a Christian missionary, Walters would have seen first-hand how the Protestant Church particularly operated a system of proselytism in Africa which often involved the teaching of Western cultural values to locals. After completing his bachelor's degree, he returned to Liberia in 1893 on account of his worsening tuberculosis. He studied at Storer College in West Virginia and in 1889 began studying at Oberlin College in Ohio. Between 18 Walters joined the Cape Mount Mission and later moved to the United States pursuing a college education. Joseph Jeffrey Walters was born in Liberia to Vey parents some time in the 1860s (his exact birth date is not known). Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess is an 1891 novel by Joseph Jeffrey Walters and is the earliest surviving novel published in English by a Black African. ![]()
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