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          Essays on the post-colonial Anglophone writers from Africa and the Caribbean and their works.

          Lenrie Peters was a Gambian writer considered among western Africa's most important poets during the second half of the 20th century.!

          Lenrie Peters

          Gambian surgeon and writer (1932–2009)

          Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (1 September 1932 – 28 May 2009)[1] was a Gambiansurgeon, novelist, poet and educationist.

          Biography

          Peters was born on 1 September 1932 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.

          Lenrie Peters (born September 1, , Bathurst, Gambia [now Banjul, The Gambia]—died May 27, , Dakar, Senegal) was a Gambian writer considered among.

        1. This paper analyzes the interplay of identity politics and self-determination in the poetry of Lenrie Peters through the lens of Frantz Fanon's theories of post.
        2. Lenrie Peters was a Gambian writer considered among western Africa's most important poets during the second half of the 20th century.
        3. Life of the late veteran Gambian writer, Lenrie Peters.
        4. Unlike the earlier generation of Gambian poets, such as Lenrie Peters, Gabriel Roberts, Swaebou Cornateh, and myself, who wrote poetry dense with imagery and.

          5. Kezia Rosemary was a Gambian Creole of Sierra Leonean Creole origin. Lenrie Jr. grew up in Bathurst and moved to Sierra Leone in 1949, where he was educated at the Prince of Wales School, Freetown, gaining his Higher School Certificate in science subjects.

          In 1952 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences, graduating with a BSc degree in 1956; from 1956 to 1959 he worked and studied at University College Hospital, London, and 1959 was awarded a Medical and Surgery diploma from Cambridge.

          Peters worked for the BBC from 1955 to 1