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-colonial African writers
of his time. We will discover that Peters had taken so much from his father the
sharp criticism against the coloniser but a much sharper attack against the
post independent leaders who truly failed Africa. This first ever published
book on Peters will make its readers discover him to be the pathfinder ushering
a new era of writers of his time.