This is the strikingly candid portrait of a poor rural boy who rose from a traditionally uneducated polygamous family in the backwaters of Rogbane village in Sierra Leone to the highest echelons in academia. He devoted his intellectual and soccer gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to succeed where many faltered through the academic rigors of Njala, Czechoslovakia and finally England where he crowned his accomplishments with a Doctorate degree in Geography.

This is a gripping and inspirational book for people from humble and deprived origins not to ever quit when they are...