Lenrie Peters Senior

Ingram Ernest Lenrie Peters (* 1894 in the British colony of Sierra Leone , † February 14, 1968 in Bathurst (now Banjul )) was a journalist , publisher and political activist in the West African state of Gambia .

Life

Peters studied Greek and Latin at Fourah Bay College in Freetown . He emigrated to the British colony of Gambia and was initially an accountant at Elder Dempster, later at the import and export company S. Madi Ltd. From December 1947 he brought out the early Gambian weekly newspaper The Gambia Echo , which he ran until his death in 1968.

He married Kezia Rosemary Peters in the 1920s, who grew up in England and whom he met in Bathurst. She was the granddaughter (daughter of the youngest daughter) of Thomas Maxwell (approx. 1823-1905), who worked as a priest in Sierra Leone and Cape Coast , Gold Coast (now Ghana ). Its parents were released Muslim slaves from Bornu . Thomas Maxwell's eldest son, Kezia's uncle Joseph Renner Maxwell (1857-1901), was a high official and politician in The Gambia.

The marriage had five children:

• Bijou (Bijou Edith Ernestine, 1927-2014) married the physician Ernest Bidwell and worked as a nurse and journalist.
• Asi Florence K. Omolara (born 1929), historian, married the physician John Mahoney (1919–2012).
• Lenrie Leopold Wilfred (1932–2009), surgeon and writer
• Ruby (Ruby Lerina Agnes, died in Dakar , 2008), work for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• Dennis Alaba (died 1996 in the US), actor in the UK from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s

The Peters family was a respected family in the Gambia at the time.

literature

• Arnold Hughes, Harry A. Gailey: Historical dictionary of the Gambia (= African historical dictionaries. Vol. 79). 3rd edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham MD et al. 1999, ISBN 0-8108-3660-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In numerous sources the activity of the publisher is assigned to the more famous son of the same name, in the literature source "Historical dictionary of the Gambia" both persons are provided with an entry each.
2. ↑ allAfrica.com: Gambia: A Literary Giant Has Fallen (Page 1 of 2). August 10, 2010, accessed January 28, 2019 . 
3. ^ The Church Missionary Intelligencer . Church Missionary Society, 1906 ( google.de [accessed January 28, 2019]).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Maxwell, Joseph Renner. Retrieved January 28, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Jehu Hanciles: Euthanasia of a mission: African Church Autonomy in a Colonial Context . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-275-97570-8 ( google.de [accessed January 28, 2019]).
6. ↑ Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, James Sidbury: The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade . University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8122-0813-9 ( google.de [accessed January 28, 2019]).
7. ^ Dr Florence Mahoney - Gambian Literature and Writings. April 5, 2009. Retrieved January 28, 2019 . 
8. ^ To my late friend Dr Lenrie Peters: The Gambian Vessel Emptied of its Poetry - Gambian Literature and Writings. July 11, 2011, accessed January 28, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Modou S. Joof: A nurse and journalist who was truly fearless in confronting authority in both Church and State. In: The North Bank Evening Standard [TNBES]. March 7, 2014, accessed January 28, 2019 . 
10. ↑ allAfrica.com: Gambia: A Literary Giant Has Fallen (Page 1 of 2). August 10, 2010, accessed January 28, 2019 . 
11. ↑ obituary notice. Retrieved January 28, 2019 . 
12. ^ Dennis Alaba Peters. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .