Soon to come Published by Global Hands. Dr Lenrie Peters is without doubt the trailblazer of Gambian literature. His poetry has been studied in several schools across Africa yet many Gambian researchers have little or no knowledge of who Peters really was and where his conviction lied. This book is an exploration of Peters origins, convictions, ideologies and writings. It is an attempt to help understand who Peters truly was through this rare collection of his statements, essays and short stories. Peters represented the nagging paradox of the poet/writer whose main major academic orientation was in the medical sciences. He also reflected the new emerging writer who made more emphasis on the African woes and challenges rather than restrict himself on the nationalistic approach taken by his counterparts of his era. Through this collection of his works, we discover vividly who Peters truly was and how his orientation was different from the colonial and post-colon