Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy

Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy (27 December 1936 – 16 March 2014)[1] was a Sierra Leonean writer, poet, actor, dancer, director and playwright.

[2] Maddy was born to Creole parents in Freetown, Sierra Leone , where he grew up and was educated (attending St. Edward's Secondary School)[3] until the age of 22.

[4] Maddy trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in the UK, and started broadcasting in Britain and Denmark, writing and producing radio plays.

His first novel, No Past, No Present, No Future, explored the dynamics of a group of three friends (including, controversially, at the time, one gay man) growing up in colonial West Africa and their physical, psychological and emotional journeys to Europe.

[9] He has also received the distinction of being commemorated in a special stained-glass window of the Pride Library in Canada, as one of 135 writers, including William Shakespeare, Federico García Lorca, W. H. Auden, James Baldwin and others, who have been acknowledged for their outstanding contribution to literature.