Literature & Storytelling
Matilda Johnson
Poet and librarian
Born 1958Matilda Alica Cynthia Johnson is a Gambian librarian and writer whose professional life connects literature with access to knowledge. She contributed poems to The Repeal and Other Poems alongside Juka Fatou Jabang and Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta. She also held senior leadership positions at The Gambia National Library.
THEIR MARK ON HISTORY
01Contributed to The Repeal and Other Poems in 2005.
02Became Director General of the National Library in 2015.
Photo: Education, ambition, independence: Mathilda Johnson shares hope for her sisters in Africa | World Council of Churches · Image rights retained by source. Cropped or framed for display. View original photograph.
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