Edison Yongai Edison Yongai i(A104193 works by) (a.k.a. Edison Nyambeche Yongai)
Born: Established:
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Sierra Leone,
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West / Central Africa, Africa, ;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: Oct 2001
Heritage: Sierra Leonean
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BiographyHistory

Edison Yongai published his first story in 1976. In Sierra Leone he was a secondary school teacher and a journalist. He was arrested for his writing and in 1999 his residence was burned. He fled to Guinea, where he was granted refugee status by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He was resettled in Australia in October, 2001.

Since living in Australia, Yongai has had three books published by Macmillan Publishers in London and has completed a Masters in Journalism at the University of Wollongong. Yongai is also one of the creative team which produced Darkness over Paradise, a film about the Sierra Leonean war.

(From the author's profile on African Australian Online Resource at http://www.africanoz.com.au/index.html; and from 'Biographies' in The Book of African Australian Stories.)

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