Clifford Nelson Fyle
| Clifford Nelson Fyle | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Clifford Nelson Fyle March 29, 1933 Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Died | January 18, 2006 (aged 72) Yonkers, New York |
| Nationality | Sierra Leonean |
| Political party | United Progressive Party, Sierra Leone People's Party |
| Alma mater | |
| Profession | Writer, Publisher, Author, Mathematician |
| Religion | Christianity |
Professor Clifford Nelson Fyle (March 29, 1933 - January 18, 2006) was a Sierra Leonean linguistics professor, author, writer, mathematician, lecturer and publisher who authored the Sierra Leone National Anthem. He was the first Sierra Leonean to produce school books for the teaching of Sierra Leonean languages. He is today widely known as the author of the Sierra Leone national anthem.
Clifford Nelson Fyle was born and raised in Freetown, Sierra Leone to Creole parents. Fyle attended the Methodist Boys High School in Freetown, and the Fourah Bay College, which was then an accredited college of the University of Durham, England, Fyle obtained Bachelor's degree in Languages and Mathematics at age of 20. He started his successful career as an educationist after completing a Diploma in Education. Fyle started his working life as a secondary schoolteacher at the Methodist Boys High School in Freetown.
Fyle was the first Publicity Secretary of the United Progressive Party (UPP) and the third in command of the same party, after Cyril Rogers-Wright and John Nelson-Williams, before it merged with the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) forming the Government of National Unity that would lead Sierra Leone to national independence from the British Empire in 1961.
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