The two girls hide in an ant hill for a day for fear of being detected and continue their journey at night. As a result, Guanya decides to run away with her friend, Jassah. On her sixteenth birthday, Kai Kundu comes to see her to discuss the prospect of their marriage but she rejects him, saying she would 'just as soon love a monkey', a gesture which is ultimately futile as her marital fate has already been determined. But Guanya, with her 'independent bearing' and 'scornful air', grew up to resent this man and this local system of the purchasing of multiple wives, falling in love instead with a local youth called Momo and vowing that she would rather drown than marry her appointed suitor. Upon her father's death at the age of four, Guanya Pau was betrothed to a man called Kai Kundu who paid a handsome sum of money for her future hand in marriage. The story begins with a descriptive introduction to a tribe of people called the Vey (today called the 'Vai'), of which Guanya Pau is a part, daughter of a chief of a town called Gallenah. He began teaching at the Cape Mount Mission in 1894 but died in November of the same year.Īs a Christian missionary, Walters would have seen first-hand how the Protestant Church particularly operated a system of proselytism in Africa which often involved the teaching of Western cultural values to locals. After completing his bachelor's degree, he returned to Liberia in 1893 on account of his worsening tuberculosis. He studied at Storer College in West Virginia and in 1889 began studying at Oberlin College in Ohio.

Between 18 Walters joined the Cape Mount Mission and later moved to the United States pursuing a college education. Joseph Jeffrey Walters was born in Liberia to Vey parents some time in the 1860s (his exact birth date is not known).

Urn:oclc:729658699 Scandate 20111004003318 Scanner Pau: A Story of an African Princess is an 1891 novel by Joseph Jeffrey Walters and is the earliest surviving novel published in English by a Black African. O元914236W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 72.30 Pages 150 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0803247648

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Guanya Pau by Joseph Jeffrey Walters