Oumar Farouk Sesay was resident playwright of 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. He has also written short stories; The Price, published by Sierra Leone writers Series and CLOSURE published by Sierra Arts publishers. His first volume of poems, Salute to the Remains of a Peasant was published in 2007 in America, followed by three more collections of poems; The Edge of a Cry , Broken Metaphor and Before the Twisted Rib.
Farouk’s Novel Landscape of Memories was first published in 2015 and republished in 2018 by Sierra Leone Writer’s Series.