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| Lemuel
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| Thank you for your
interest in a great Sierra Leonean educationist, lecturer, author
and poet. In the following pages, you will have the opportunity
to read more about this great son of the soil, Eljay. |
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 How
his University announced his death ...
(University of Michigan, Department of English Language and
Literature)
Sad News: |
Publications
Leonenet Eljay Scholarship Fund
Tributes |
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At 8:45 PM,
March 12th, Lemuel Johnson died at home. Over the last
seven months he endured an increasingly painful and hopeless
illness with good humor, unfaltering courage, and immense
courtesy. He retained a sweetness and serenity of disposition
through his last moments of consciousness and died as
he lived, with grace and dignity, assured of the love
of his family and friends, and seeking to reassure them.
A memorial fund has been set up in honor of Professor
Johnson to aid in the reconstruction of Holy Trinity Church
in Freetown, Sierra Leone, which was severely damaged
in the recent conflict. This was the church that Lemuel's
dearly beloved grandfather, the late Rev. S.S. Williams,
served as priest and canon, and it meant a great deal
to Lemuel as a defining place of memory and imagination.
Contributions should be addressed to The Lemuel Johnson
Church Fund, National City Bank, 505 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor,
MI 48104.
Cremation has taken place as Lemuel wished, and at some
future point his ashes will be distributed in Sierra Leone
and New Mexico. |
Shakespeare In Africa
Hand on the Navel
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