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Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (1 September 1932 – 28 May 2009) was a Gambian
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and educationist.


Biography

Peters was born in 1931 in Bathurst (now
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) in The Gambia. His parents were Lenrie Ernest Ingram Peters and Kezia Rosemary. Lenrie Sr. was a
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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
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in 1949, where he was educated at the Prince of Wales School (Freetown, Sierra Leone), Prince of Wales School,
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, gaining his Higher School Certificate in science subjects. In 1952 he went up to
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, to read Natural Sciences, graduating with a BSc degree in 1956; from 1956 to 1959 he worked and studied at
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, and 1959 was awarded a Medical and Surgery diploma from Cambridge. Peters worked for the
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from 1955 to 1968, on their Africa programmes. While at Cambridge University he was elected president of the African Students' Union, and interested himself in
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politics. He also began writing poetry and plays, as well as starting work on his only novel, '' The Second Round'' (published by Heinemann in 1965). Peters worked in hospitals in
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before returning to the Gambia, where he had a surgical practice in Banjul. He was a fellow of the
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and the
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in England. Peters was President of the Historic Commission of Monuments of the Gambia, was president of the board of directors of the
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and
The Gambia College The Gambia College is a Gambian tertiary institution with campuses located in Banjul and Brikama Brikama is one of the largest cities in the Gambia. It is also called 'Satey Ba' by the locals, meaning "big town". It lies southwest of the coun ...
from 1979 to 1987, and was a member and President of the
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(WAEC) from 1985 to 1991. He died in
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Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ðž ...
, in 2009, aged 76.


Published works


Poetry

*1964: ''Poems'' (Ibadan: Mbari Publications) *1967: ''Satellites'' (London: Heinemann,
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No. 37) *1971: ''Katchikali'' (London: Heinemann, African Writers Series No. 103) ; *1981: ''Selected Poetry'' (London: Heinemann, African Writers Series No. 238) *1984: A New Book of African Verse


Novels

*1965: '' The Second Round'' (London: Heinemann, African Writers Series No. 22)


References

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