The author is from a background of working mental health and later specialising in stress management and counselling. He has always been interested in writing. As pupil in the Methodist Boys’ High School in Freetown Sierra Leone, he wrote poetry some of which were published in one of the local newspapers.

He has always been interested in researching and writing his family history, since he was told by his late Aunt Emma as a boy that there are missionaries in the family.

His interest in African Caribbean history led him to read for a Masters Degree in History and Gender at Nottingham Trent University. As a student there he was much influenced by his tutor, Doctor Judith Rowbotham, who encouraged him to pursue his writing of his family history.

He enjoys listening to jazz music, travelling and wine making from his own home grown grapes.

His greatest ambition is to pay a visit to the banks of the Calabar River in Nigeria from where his ancestor originated in 1816.