[1] Yema Lucilda Hunter was born on 15 July 1943 in Freetown,[1] to parents Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker and Olivette Hannah Stuart.
[2][3] During her time at the hospital, she was the designated consultant to the Development of Public Library Service: Sierra Leone proposal that was submitted to the UNESCO in 1983.
[2] She lived in Accra, Ghana, with her husband, Kobina Hunter (who died in January 2020), and passed away on August 21, 2022.
Lucilda Hunter would publish an influential work in 2016 about her mother-in-law,[4] having also written a book about Adelaide Casely-Hayford and her daughter, Galdys, in 1983.
She explores the significance of Christianity to the settlers, along with economic, domestic, personal, and social concepts to focus on the human experience during the settlement of Freetown, and subsequently Sierra Leone, establishing a narrative of searching for freedom.