The Autobiography of an African Princess

The Autobiography of an African Princess, published in 2013, is an account of the early years (1912–1946) in the life of Fatima Massaquoi, a descendant of the royal families of the Gallinas from Sierra Leone and Liberia.

It describes her early childhood in Africa, her schooling in Germany and Switzerland and her university studies in the United States.

[1][2] Massaquoi first embarked on the story of her life in 1939 while studying social psychology at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

This pressed Seton into having the 700 pages of her mother's unpublished autobiography microfilmed, calling on the assistance of colleagues at the University of Liberia.

The first covers the period from her birth until 1922 when she spent her childhood years in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the second describes her education in Switzerland and Germany, where as a young African woman she experienced the rise of the Nazi party, and the third, her university years in the United States where she was confronted with racial segregation in the Southern States from 1936 until her return to Liberia in 1946.