Kossoh Town Boy School edition

Originally published in 1960, Kossoh Town Boy is the boyhood story of an African surgeon in Sierra Leone.

Robert Wellesley Cole (Author), Felix Cobbson (Illustrated by)

9780521046862, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1960

192 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm, 0.21 kg

Originally published in 1960, Kossoh Town Boy is the boyhood story of an African surgeon. The first African to be elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a key figure in the independence movement of his country, he looks back on the days of his childhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is a delightful story, told simply, frankly and with humour. We see step by step how 'that boy, with his rough edges, his foibles and nuances, his grimaces and gaucheries', was gradually moulded by his parents and teachers, until he developed qualities of leadership.

List of illustrations
1. Cocoon in the sun
2. Birth of a people
3. A son is born
4. My early infancy
5. Our home
6. Mother's care
7. Family life
8. My pal Jabez
9. Kossoh town folk
10. Preparing for school
11. Bereavement
12. First year at school
13. Rehabilitation at home
14. The war year
15. Fleshpots
16. Weden discovered
17. Sunrise on Mount Aureol
18. Last year at model school
19. Prince of Wales School
20. C. M. S. Grammar School
21. Interlude.

Subject Areas: Educational: English language & literacy [YQC]