Jerry Sarkwah

The Boy from Africa Jerry Sarkwah

"I am a man of many names, names given to me by the people I have met, names I have taken to honor them, and this is my story." So THE BOY FROM AFRICA begins, the story of Kwame Peter Matthew "Black-Photo" Mac-White Blackteng, a young man in Ghana growing up in a world where orphans are left to the tender ministrations indifferent adults. From his early years where he served as a hired hand on a farm, missing school due to the costs and the requirements too steep to bear, to his later years when he was befriended by a man in a collar, his story relates the adventures of a boy who is wise in his heart and careful with his words...