Julian Mayfield - Proper noun

Born on 1928, Julian Mayfield is a African American author and novelist and a well known political expatriate of West Africa. He was sure of his future path to be a writer since he was young. He wrote his first novel at the age of 12. He experienced his first encounter of direct discrimination when he went to apply for a job as a copy boy and was told they do not hire "colored" copy boys. He did a tour of duty in the Philippines but was medically discharged in 1947. He spent the next few years studying social sciences and drama and acting. He directed and acted in several broadway plays and starred in "A wedding in Japan", and "Detective story". He admitted in his unpublished autobiography he had been in various left wing communist groups while also writing articles for Paul Robeson's newspaper. He later left the group when physical threats were drawing closer to him. He married a Puerto Rican women and moved to Puerto Rico and became a news caster for the country's first english speaking radio station. Julian was accused being an accomplice in a malicious incident where two couples were held at gun point and were kidnapped by a white terrorist group. He fled to Ghana with his wife and was hired as writer for Ghanaian newspaper. He lived in Ghana until 1966 where he relocated to Spain. He returned to the U.S where he taught at Cornell University. He talked about the adversities of the West Africans that lived there and wrote about the decolonization topics that were on the rise.

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