Oumar Farouk Sesay is a Poet, Playwright, and Novelist. He was a resident playwright for Bai Bureh Theatre in the '80s. Several of his plays were performed in the then City Hall, and he won accolades among his peers. He veered into journalism and wrote for several local and international newspapers. He has been published in many anthologies of Sierra Leonean poets; Lice in the Lion's Mane, Songs That Pour the Heart, Kalashnikov in the Sun, and AFRIKA IM GEDICHT. Salute to the Remains of a Peasant was published in 2007 in America, followed by five more collections of poems; The Edge of a Cry, Broken Metaphor, Before the Twisted Rib,400Years Of Servitude, and THERE WAS AN EDEN is his latest collection of poems. Some of his poems have been translated into Spanish and German.
His poem, "Song of the Women of my Land," is on the Literature-in English syllabus for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination. He is currently the President of the PEN Sierra Leone Chapter.