Jerry Sarkwah
ASIN: B00UMMS2SS
Publisher: Lillies of the Field LLC
Pages: 105
“I am a man of many names, names given to me by the people I have met, names I have taken to honor them, and this is my story.”
So THE BOY FROM AFRICA begins, the story of Kwame Peter Matthew “Black-Photo” MacWhite Blackteng, a young man in Ghana growing up in a world where orphans are left to the tender ministrations indifferent adults. From his early years where he served as a hired hand on a farm, missing school due to the costs and the requirements too steep to bear, to his later years when he was befriended by a man in a collar, his story relates the adventures of a boy who is wise in his heart and careful with his words.
There are moments of high adventure, moments of fear and terror, and moments of great joy, always punctuated by the stern voice of his adoptive parent, the lioness woman Mrs. Mensah, who had many tasks for young Kwame to complete before he could rest from his ...