Lenrie Peters

This article concerns the surgeon and writer. For a journalist, publisher, and political activist, see Lenrie Peters Senior .

Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (born September 1, 1932 in Bathurst (now Banjul ), Gambia , † May 28, 2009 in Dakar , Senegal ) was a Gambian surgeon , writer and poet .

Life

Lenrie Peters was the son of Lenrie Peters Senior . In 1949 he went to the Prince of Wales School in Freetown (Sierra Leone), where he obtained his "High School Certificate" with a scientific focus. He then went to Trinity College in Cambridge in 1952 , where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1956 . From 1956 to 1959 he worked and studied at University College Hospital in London and received his medical and surgical diploma from Cambridge in 1959. He also worked for the BBC 's Africa program from 1955 to 1968 .

During his time in Cambridge he was elected President of the African Students' Union and became interested in pan-African politics. He wrote a few poems and his only semi-autobiographical novel, The Second Round , published in 1965. These publications brought him the attention of the English literary scene and a reputation for being one of the best poets in Africa.

Before returning to The Gambia, Peters worked at the hospitals in Guildford and Northampton . In Gambia he then worked as chief surgeon at the Protectorate Hospital in Bansang (1969–1972). He later left the public service and then ran his own private practice and ran the "Westfield Clinic" founded by Samuel J. Palmer in Serekunda .

Lenrie Peters played an important role in the transition from military to civil government from 1995 to 1996 when he took over the chairmanship of the National Consultative Commission in December 1995 .

Peters was a member of the West African College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons in England. He later became President of the Gambian Monument Commission (Historic Commission of Monuments of the Gambia) and President of the Board of Directors of the Gambian National Library and, from 1979 to 1987, of the Gambia College . From 1985 to 1991 he was a member and president of the West African Examination Council (WAEC).

Peters died in Dakar in May 2009 at the age of 76 after a brief illness.

family

Lenrie Peters was part of an important Gambian family. He was born to the journalist and publisher Lenrie Peters Senior (1894-1965) and Kezia Rosemary Peters. His mother was the granddaughter (daughter of the youngest daughter) of Thomas Maxwell (approx. 1823-1905), who served as a priest in Sierra Leone and Cape Coast , Gold Coast (now Ghana ). His parents were part of the Aku population .

Among his siblings were the journalist and nurse Bijou Peters (1927-2014), the historian Florence Mahoney (born 1929), the development worker Ruby Peters (died 2008) and the actor Dennis Alaba Peters (died 1996).

Works

Poetry

• 1964: Poems (Ibadan: Mbari Press)
• 1967: Satellites (London: Heinemann)
• 1971: Katchikali (London: Heinemann) ISBN 0-435-90633-X , ISBN 0-435-90103-6
• 1981: Selected Poetry (London: Heinemann) ISBN 0-435-90238-5

Novels

• 1965: The Second Round. Heinemann, London, ISBN 0-435-90022-6 .

Awards

• Royal College of Surgeons, 1967
• West African College of Surgeons
• International College of Surgeons, 1992
• Officer, Order of the Republic of The Gambia (ORG)
• News and Report, Man of the Year, 1995

literature

• Arnold Hughes and Harry A. Gailey: Historical dictionary of the Gambia . Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. 1999, ISBN 0-8108-3660-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LENRIE PETERS (Gambia, 1932) ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed September 2008 
2. ^ The Dreams of Katchikali: The Challenge of a Gambian National Literature. Retrieved February 24, 2019 . 
3. ^ Adieu Lenrie Peters The Point (online) of May 28, 2009
4. ^ The Church Missionary Intelligencer . Church Missionary Society, 1906 ( google.de [accessed January 28, 2019]).
5. ↑ Maxwell, Joseph Renner. Retrieved January 28, 2019 . 
6. ^ David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia . Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6526-4 , pp. 281 ( google.de [accessed on January 28, 2019]).
7. ↑ obituary notice. Retrieved January 28, 2019 . 
8. ^ Dennis Alaba Peters. Retrieved January 27, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Hassoum Ceesay: Mahoney, Florence . In: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr (Eds.): Dictionary of African Biography . tape 4 . Oxford Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5 , pp. 46 .