Interview with Gambian writer Lenrie Peters

Lenrie Peters, poet and novelist (b. 1932), was educated at the universities of Cambridge and London. A practising surgeon, he has been a journalist (African programs with the BBC), President of the board of directors of the National Library of The Gambia and Gambia College, and member of the jury for the Commonwealth Writers Prize competition. His first poems were published in 1964 and his first novel in 1965. The Second Round (London: Heinemann) is about a British-trained African physician,..