Lenrie peters biography of mahatma

Gambian surgeon and writer (1932–2009)

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

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A poet and short- story writer who has recently extended her art to the theater, after perfect- ing her oral performance of her poetry through.

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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.

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