Lighting the Darkness

With this book, the first volume in a series, I didn’t presume to write anything of immense importance or of any outstanding nature. The intent was merely to share some of my personal experiences as a child born in a small African village and then to relate details of my subsequent social contacts and opportunities, my studies, and some of my accomplishments.

I was born in 1946 in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, and I lost my sight between the ages of six and ten. But over the years, ...