Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango

Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango (9 August 1891 – 20 July 1924) was a Sierra Leonean missionary and artist who was the first West African to earn a diploma from the Royal College of Arts. She was the niece of Adelaide Casely-Hayford and was a personal friend of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Simango was also a member of the prominent Sierra Leone Creole Easmon family.

Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango
Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango in her wedding gown, from a 1922 publication.
Born9 August 1891
Accra
Died20 July 1924
London, England

Early years and education
Further information: Easmon family

Kathleen Mary Easmon was born on 9 August 1891 as the younger of two children in Accra, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), to Dr John Farrell Easmon and Annette Kathleen Easmon, née Smith.[1] Kathleen was educated at Slaford House School, then Notting Hill High School from 1903 to 1907, then the Girls' Modern School, Bedford from 1907 to 1908, and finally the Royal College of Arts in London.[2][3]

Personal life

She was married to Columbus Kamba Simango, an East African teacher educated at Columbia University.[1]

Death

Kathleen Easmon died of appendicitis, aged 32, on 20 July 1924 at Charing Cross Hospital, London, England.[4]

Sources
  • M. C. F. Easmon, "A Nova Scotian Family", Eminent Sierra Leoneans in the nineteenth century (1961).
  • Adell Patton, Jr., "Dr. John Farrell Easmon: Medical Professionalism and Colonial Racism in the Gold Coast, 1856-1900", The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4 (1989), pp. 601–636.
  • Adell Patton Jr., "The Easmon Episode", Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa, pp. 93–122.

References
  1. Ahovi E. F. Kponou and Ngadi W. Kponou. "KATHLEEN MARY EASMON SIMANGO….. Reflections". Easmon Family History. Retrieved 6 August 2017.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. "Register of Pupils 1890–1908" (PDF). Notting Hill & Ealing High School Digital Archives. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  3. "Girls' Modern School, Bedford". National School Admission Registers & Log-books 1870–1914 Transcription. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  4. "Mrs Kathleen Simango". The Times. London. 26 July 1924.
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