Under The Tree Called Gbendeh, is the chronicle of a young boy growing up in Sierra Leone, West Africa, in the early third of the twentieth century, a time when much of West Africa was still under British Colonial Rule. It graphically portrays what the life of a white missionary child was like, living deep in the 1930's bush of Sierra Leone. The author has skilfully woven together the conditions found in the present country and the conditions that existed over sixty years ago in a far different time. He writes of his love for his adopted land and whimsically recalls interesting episodes that...