About the Author

Born and raised in his native Ghana in West Africa, the author has studied and worked in countries across three continents as a graduate student and university professor. In addition to teaching at the famous Fourah Bay College, the University of Sierra Leone, the author was a freelance journalist contributing articles in the local journals. At the university of Ghana, his Alma Mata, he was editor of his Hall's student Journal, the voice. He holds four degrees, including a PhD in economics from the University of Reading in England and a B. Ed from the University of Alberta. Currently living in Alberta as a Canadian citizen, the author is an Institutional Researcher at Athabasca University, Canada's Open University, in Athabasca, Alberta. He is married with two children.