Harry Sawyerr was influenced by Thomas Sylvester Johnson, the first assistant bishop of Sierra Leone.[4]
Works
(with William Thomas Harris) The Springs of Mende Beliefs and Conduct: a discussion of the influence of the belief in the supernatural among the Mende, 1968
Creative Evangelism: towards a new Christian encounter with Africa, 1968
God: Ancestor or Creator? Aspects of traditional belief in Ghana, Nigeria & Sierra Leone, 1970
(ed. J. Paratt) The Practice of Presence: Selected Papers of Harry Sawyerr, 1995
^Andrew F. Wallis, 'Johnson, Thomas Sylvester', in Gerald H. Anderson, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, 1998. Reprinted onlineArchived 2012-05-20 at the Wayback Machine at the Dictionary of African Christian Biography.