Oscar Ronald Dathorne (19 November 1934 – 18 December 2007) was a Guyanese educator, novelist, poet and critic.
[1] Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Dathorne attended Queen's College, prior to his parents moving the family to England in 1953.
He therefore sought job opportunities abroad and successfully applied for a teaching post at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.
He remained in West Africa for six years, completing his stay while holding a full professorship at the University of Sierra Leone as head of the English department.
With the continuing changes in the black American psyche, African culture and heritage were viewed as a past in which to take great pride.