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Bai T. Moore

1916 – 1988

The father of Liberian literature

Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Liberia Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.

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Poet, novelist and folklorist who founded Liberia's National Cultural Center, and wrote the novella every Liberian schoolchild reads.

Bai Tamia Johnson Moore was a Liberian poet, novelist, folklorist and essayist.

He founded Liberia's National Cultural Center and is best known for Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968), a crime of passion set in a traditional Liberian world.
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