Lenrie peters biography

Gambian surgeon and writer (–)

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

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Lenrie Peters is considered to be one of the most original of modern African poets, as well as one of the most intellectual.

Lenrie Peters, poet and novelist (b.

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.

Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters was born on September 1, , in Bathurst now Banjul in Gambia, to parents from a privileged background.

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.

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