Lenrie peters biography of albert

Gambian surgeon and writer (–)

Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (1 September – 28 May )^[1] was a Gambiansurgeon, novelist, poet and educationist.

Lenrie peters biography of albert einstein While at Cambridge University he was elected president of the African Students' Union, and interested himself in Pan-Africanist politics. Peters, Lenrie Leopold Wilfred. He is a cosmopolitan poet in both style and subject—"The universe is my book"—and includes in his work poems on international subjects in science, music, politics, evolution, and sports there is a poem on the Chinese nuclear bomb and an elegy on Winston Churchill. Peters, Lenrie Leopold Wilfred gale.

Biography

Peters was born on 1 September in Bathurst (now Banjul) in The Gambia.^[2] His parents were Lenrie Ernest Ingram Peters and Kezia Rosemary. Lenrie Sr. was a Sierra Leone Creole of West Indian or black American origin. Kezia Rosemary was a Gambian Creole of Sierra Leonean Creole origin. Lenrie Jr. grew up in Bathurst and moved to Sierra Leone in , where he was educated at the Prince of Wales School, Freetown, gaining his Higher School Certificate in science subjects.

Biography of albert einstein In he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge , to read Natural Sciences, graduating with a BSc degree in ; from to he worked and studied at University College Hospital , London , and was awarded a Medical and Surgery diploma from Cambridge. Peters, Lisa Westberg. Peters's early volume Satellites is aptly named, for there is a sense in these poems, first, of the tough-minded but sensitive poetdoctor's double alienation from the hub of fashionable literary activity and the harsh factual world of his profession, and, second and more precisely, of the writer orbiting his subject, always distanced and detached, never abandoned and immersed. Novels [ edit ].

In he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences, graduating with a BSc degree in ; from to he worked and studied at University College Hospital, London, and was awarded a Medical and Surgery diploma from Cambridge. Peters worked for the BBC from to , on their Africa programmes.

While at Cambridge University he was elected president of the African Students' Union, and interested himself in Pan-Africanist politics.

He also began writing poetry and plays, as well as starting work on his only novel, The Second Round (published by Heinemann in ).

Lenrie peters biography of albert Lenrie Peters. He died in Dakar , Senegal , on 27 May , aged Peters, Ralph Owen Parry. Peters, Gretchen.

Peters worked in hospitals in Guildford and Northampton before returning to the Gambia, where he had a surgical practice in Banjul. He was a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons in England.

Peters was President of the Historic Commission of Monuments of the Gambia, was president of the board of directors of the National Library of the Gambia and The Gambia College from to , and was a member and President of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) from to

He died in Dakar, Senegal, on 27 May , aged ^[3]

Published works

Poetry

Lost Friends

Novels

References

Relevant literature

• Elimimian, Isaac I.

  "Contemporary Africa in Lenrie Peters’poetry." In The Humanities and the Dynamics of African Culture in the 21st Century, edited by John Ayotunde, Isola Bewaji, Kenneth W. Harrow, Eunice E. Omonzejie, and Christopher E. Ukhun, (): Cambridge Scholars Press.