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This is a story is about a family. It begins when a young son, after his Mother dies is sold to a work farm by his alcoholic Father for a few dollars. The boy is about six years old. He is faced with a harsh upbringing on the work farm, that farms peanuts. He falls in love with a bi-racial girl that is a cook on the farm. He befriends an old black man that oversees the boys on the farm. The old black man finds out where the proprietor is hiding his stash that he is stealing from the home. When they get around 15-16 years old they flee the work farm, after the old black man share's the proprietors cache with them.They come out of hiding, marry and buy a small farm with the stolen money. Naturally, he does what he knows best, farm peanuts. They prosper, continually adding to their property, and become very wealthy. When he gets grown he looks up his little sister and brother and they are reunited, all the while they are fighting the racism and bigotry that is prevalent in the South.
Winston Churchill escribió ésta su primera obra histórica en 1899, cuando era un joven teniente y se incorporó a la fuerza anglo-egipicia en la reconquista del Sudán ocupado por los derviches del Mahdi. En forma de narración testimonial, recrea los episod
The Gola Forest covers a vast area of the eastern part of Sierra Leone, starting from the Malema, Gaura, Nomo, Tunkia and Makpeli chiefdoms and stretching on to the Moro River that forms the international border between Sierra Leone and Liberia. The Gola Forest has many of the largest animals and fauna? and it was in that region where I was born, raised to enjoy the conviviality of the natural environment.As children, we were left to grow and adventure many things. Sometimes we roamed for hours in the jungle of the Gola Forest, discovering things under the coolness of the trees which were responsible for creating a type of jungle air conditioning, until the parents decided that it was time learn a trade, Qur?an madrassa or attend other schools which were usually too far away in different areas.This haunting, hilarious, memorable narrative of my childhood enriched my life at primary and secondary schools, from the jungle village on the back waters of the Eastern Province in Sierra Leone.