In his bold and pioneering novel, No Past, No Present, No Future, Yulisa Amadu Maddy explores the dynamics between three young boys as their lives slip quickly into chaos and tragedy.
Yulisa Amadu Maddy was a professor, poet, playwright,
novelist, and dancer born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1936.
In 1969, he founded Sierra Leone's Gbakanda Afrikan Tiata theatre
company and published a collection of poetry titled New African
Prose. The following year, he directed Zambia's national dance
troupe in training for Montreal World's Fair.
He received the Sierra Leone National Arts Festival Award in 1973,
the same year he released his debut novel, No Past, No Present, No
Future. He was also awarded the Gulbenkian Grant from the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation in 1978 and an Edinburgh Festival Award in
1979.
Maddy was briefly imprisoned and exiled for his political activism
in Sierra Leone but returned in 2007 to teach at Freetown’s Milton
Margai College of Education. He died in 2014.
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