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OTHER BOOKS
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The Future in the Past
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Franklyn Kaloko
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Published in 2005 by iUniverse, www.iuniverse.com
ISBN: 978-0-595-33788-0
; $26.95 US
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| 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 with humble and
deprived origins not to ever quit when they are
under concerted and relenting assault orchestrated
by institutional barriers, human ingratitude and
madness. The accounts of academic politics at
Fourah Bay College and other places he has worked
in the world, revealed the life of this humble
university don with all his talents and
contradictions, told openly, directly, and in his
own completely recognizable character.
His university career was shaped
by an unfaltering commitment to shape and improve
the lives of his students, fellow colleagues and
the public. Even the civil war mayhem in his
native country of Sierra Leone did not daunt his
spirits and today he lives in asylum in the United
States with his ever supportive wife and
illustrious family.
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| FRANKLYN KALOKO, B.A. ED
(USL); M.A. (Prague); Ph.D. (Salford, UK). Formerly Senior
Lecturer and Head, Department of Geography, University of
Maiduguri and University of Ile-Ife both in Nigeria; Associate
Professor and Head, Department of Geography, Fourah Bay
College, University of Sierra Leone. Visiting Fulbright
Professor, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA; Senior
Lecturer, Department of Geography, Universiti Brunei
Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, South East
Asia. Dr. Kaloko has research interests in housing, population
and contemporary social and economic issues in human
settlements.
He is the author of SETTLEMENT GEOGRAPHY FOR THE
TROPICS published in the Sierra Leonean Writers
Series.
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