The Biography of Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell
Gbanabom Hallowell, an established Sierra Leonean poet, born Elvis Jacob Hallowell in Sierra Leone in 1965. He got his education at Birch Memorial Secondary School, Makeni and Milton Margai Teachers College (now Milton Margai College of Education), where he studied English.
As a teacher, librarian, journalist and a human rights activist, he endured his country’s ten year civil war whose experiences have shaped his poetry. Hallowell went for an MFA in Writing at Vermont College of The Union Institute & University in the USA. Apart from his writing, Hallowell is the Founder and Executive Director of the project Save Heritage and Rehabilitate the Environment. He is also the Founder/Executive Director of North America Center for African Writers (NACAW); and he is working on a novel about the war.
Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell, who has recently branched into storytelling is the Director-General of The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation. His works of poetry include Drumbeats of War; A Little After Dawn; My Immigrant Blood; and Manscape in the Sierra: New and Collected Poems 1991-2011. Hallowell’s venires into storytelling include the publishing of Tears of the Sweet Peninsula: May 25, 1997; The Sierra Leone Civil Conflict; and The Lust of Cain. He lives and works full-time in Maryland for MVM, Inc., a security firm
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