Tijan Sallah

Tijan M. Sallah was born on 6 March 1958 in Serekunda. A pupil at the Koranic school and then at St Augustine's High School, he wrote his first poems as a teenager; Lenrie Peters read them and had them broadcast on the radio. He left for the United States in 1977 and studied economics at Berea College and then at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, up to the doctorate, and taught it before joining the World Bank in 1989, where he worked on agriculture and rural development in Africa. He has published poems, anthologies and a biography of Chinua Achebe.

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• Short storiesBefore the New EarthTijan Sallah · 1988Literature