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Liberian Author Wilton Sankawulo, Sr. Wilton Gbakolo Sengbe Sankawulo's many publications include myths and legends of Liberia, novels, a biography, and a collection of essays. His most recent publication, a novel titled Sundown at Dawn: A Liberian Odyssey, was published in Houston in 2005. Sankawulo's principal goal as a writer is to record folklore, and analyze and assess the social situation in his country. He served as Kpelle and English writer and translator at the Kpelle Literacy Center in Totota, Liberia, counting among his most important achievements his translation of the New Testament into Kpelle, his native language (1968-69). His present writing project is a memoir of the civil war in which he reflects upon the Liberian experience and identifies the underlying causes of the human tragedy that engulfed the nation for more than three decades. Sankawulo is one of Liberia's foremost creative writers, educators, and public servants of long record. While engaged in government service, he joined the faculties of the University of Liberia and Cuttington University College as Professor of English and Literature. In 2001, during a mission to Romania on behalf of Cuttington University College, the University of Sibiu conferred on the Liberian professor the degree of Doctor of Literature, honoris causa, for his literary accomplishments. The University of Sibiu also published his collections of Liberian tales in 2005 entitled Great Tales of Liberia.  |
