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Lenrie Peters

Died in 2009

Lenrie Peters was born on 1 September 1932 in Bathurst, present-day Banjul, into a Creole family of Sierra Leonean origin. A pupil in Freetown, he studied science at Cambridge, where he presided over the African students' union, then medicine in London, and from 1955 to 1968 worked on the BBC's African programmes. Returning in 1969, he was a surgeon in Banjul, and chaired the board of the national library and the West African Examinations Council. He died in Dakar in 2009.

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