# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/syl-cheney-coker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:36:36.356Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/syl-cheney-coker"
name: "Syl Cheney-Coker"
slug: "syl-cheney-coker"
description: "Syl Cheney-Coker is a poet, novelist, and journalist from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Educated in the United States, he has a global sense of literary history, and has introduced styles and techniques from French and Latin American literatures to Sierra Leone. He has spent much of his life in exile from his native country, and has written extensively about the condition of exile and the view of Africa from an African abroad."
tagline: "Sierra Leonean writer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.937257333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syl_Cheney-Coker"
    title: "Syl Cheney-Coker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سيل تشينى كوكير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syl_Cheney-Coker"
    title: "Syl Cheney-Coker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syl_Cheney-Coker"
    title: "Syl Cheney-Coker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syl_Cheney-Coker"
    title: "Syl Cheney-Coker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syl_Cheney-Coker"
    title: "Syl Cheney-Coker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Чейни-Коукер, Сил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1760968"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump