Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango (9 August 1891 – 20 July 1924) was a Sierra Leonean missionary and artist who was the first West African to earn a diploma from the Royal College of Art.

Simango was also a member of the prominent Sierra Leone Creole Easmon family.

[2][3] She began writing poetry at a young age, and when she was still a teenager some of her poems were set to music by composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who was a family friend.

[1] She was married to Columbus Kamba Simango, an East African teacher educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and Columbia University.

[1] Kathleen Easmon died of appendicitis, aged 32, on 20 July 1924 at Charing Cross Hospital, London, England.