Adelaide Casely-Hayford, born on the 2nd of June in 1868, was a Sierra Leone Creole Pan-African feminist, educator, and author. Hayford established a vocational school for young girls in Sierra Leone that emphasized racial and cultural pride.
Hayford was born into an elite Sierra Leone family in Freetown, British Sierra Leone. She spent much of her youth in England and studying throughout the West, also studying music in Germany at the age of 17.
While in England, Adelaide married West African author and Pan-Africanist J. E. Casely Hayford (also known as Ekra-Agiman). Their marriage may have influenced her transformation into a cultural nationalist.
In May 1914, Hayford returned to Sierra Leone, dedicating the rest of her life to educating African girls. In October 1923, she established the Girls' Vocational School, one of the first educational institutions in Sierra Leone to provide young girls with an African-centered education, according to historian Keisha N. Blain.
Hayford frequently traveled throughout the world, giving a speaking tour in the United States on misconceptions about Africa. Author Brittany Rogers notes that these travels also exposed her to the exploitation of black female labor throughout the world.
Although her educational concept for young girls had a Victorian-influenced, middle class domesticity in mind, Rogers writes that these travels led Hayford to begin writing and speaking on matters of labor as well. Hayford died in her hometown of Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1960.
"Instantly my eyes were opened to the fact that the education meted out to [African people] had...taught us to despise ourselves. Our immediate need was an education which would instill into us a love of country, a pride of race, an enthusiasm for the black man's capabilities, and a genuine admiration for Africa's wonderful art work."
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My Unstoppables playthrough of Fallout 4 has been pretty fun so far. As mentioned on my other account I made my character the generic Nora but used Start Me Up Mod to make her an escaped Synth in Goodneighbor. If I do end up doing the main quest, this will give her motivation, because my character will be trying to understand the woman she was a copy of, while her being her own explicit person separate to those events. Currently I'm roleplaying she's amnesiac to both Nora's memories or anything from being a Synth.
I've got a bunch of the creation club I just downloaded (this one trick Bethesda doesn't want you to know). So I've made Neon Flats right in the middle of Goodneighbor my Silver Shroud Hideout on the second floor and the Unstoppables base on the top floor. I immediately did the Silver Shroud quest and saved Kent.
I'm collecting companions to fill out the team (I'm using a mod that allows multiple companions). I'm trying to pick ones who would realistically just hang out following my character rather than those with explicit jobs (Piper, Danse, Preston, Nick etc). This isn't the "real" Unstoppables, it's my character making a group inspired from them like with the Silver Shroud questline.
So I currently have Cait as Grognak in the loincloth and with Grognak's axe. I had McReady as Kid-Shroud in a spare alternative Shroud outfit from one of the Creation Clubs, but I upgraded him to Captain Cosmos with the suit and Cryo Cannon from that CC. I have Dogmeat with goggles and Ada the Robot who I'm going to make into a fancy Assaultron. I'm thinking of rounding out the group with Curie as the Mechanist once I finish that DLC.
I'm having a lot of fun, I'm just in the Silver Shroud Costume (with a Silver Pip boy) using handguns, high agility and luck, doing critical hits. I'm putting together a fully Chromed T-51 suit as Silver Shroud Power Armour for the rare times I need it. A lot of the story in that game is bad, but having a rolling fight with raiders or mutants in downtown Boston with my team is a hoot.