Naimbana

AMF represents herself as getting on well socially with upper-class Africans in Sierra Leone, though she did not take African distinctions of rank entirely seriously. She behaved with at least outward respect to King Naimbana

They brought with them to England Prince John Frederick, a son of chief Naimbana , to be educated there. AMF thought highly of his intelligence (if not of his character), and taught him first the...

AMF 's degree of irony is sometimes hard to gauge. She describes Naimbana 's Court in session at Robana, the king seated between his secretary and his Palavar man; or, as the office is...

At Bance IslandAMF describes her first sight of many of my own sex, though of different complexions from myself, attired in their native garbs—which, she says, often offended her delicacy. She notes sardonically...