
Of Prayers and Cures and Very Pretty Girls (Published 2016)
I grew up in Sierra Leone, on the campus of Fourah Bay College, the oldest university in West Africa. My father was an engineering professor, my mother an accountant and together they agreed that someday I would become a doctor. They wholeheartedly encouraged me to study the sciences. My father, in particular, embraced the impartiality of science and math. “Wherever you go, two plus two will always equal four,” my father routinely told me. I could be a small African girl who spoke English with a...