Frank Benjamin Kamara

Black Diamond

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a simple but an insightful and uplifting memories and reflections on the odyssey that took Frank Kamara to the United States of America from his village in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where a dream was just a dream, where opportunities were nonexistent, and where hope and bright future for all the young people were just fumes of fancy. This was in the late fifties, and there was only one young man who attended a secondary school from my village. The dream to aspire to higher education was just a wish-fulfillment fantasy, and the general population was poor and uneducated. However, things have changed considerably. Modern homes are being built, education is expanding, a secondary school and two primary schools have been established, and there is a plan for a super highway construction that will soon pass through the village. There were several positive factors that were true about my village: First, we lived in nuclear families, in which all the members protected one another and provided the needs of everyone. Secondly, we always lived in families that had intense love to go around, except in my case. The only family member, my father, upon whom I could depend and receive my training, the love, the nurture, and the emotional support I needed as a growing young boy was not only physically, mentally, and verbally abusive but he was the individual whose subversive behavior almost ruined my life. He constantly reminded me about growing up to be a failure and that I'd amount to nothing. For him, I was not expected to be educated, let alone to achieve anything in life. He compared me to a helpless girl. The verbal and physical assaults on me and my mother were daily occurrences. We were beaten up on regular basis. I went through a lot more that could have brought all his predictions to pass. My father, therefore, is the main reason for me to write this book. I hope it will inspire all the young people who are in despair and who are in abusive and hopeless situations to realize that they can develop self-worth, self-determination, and create for themselves the empowering nature of solid internal motivation that can defeat failure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781504974448
• ISBN-10: 1504974441
• Artikelnr.: 44607212

Autorenporträt

Frank Benjamin Kamara was born and raised in a small village in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He immigrated to the United States in 1970 to attend college to become a teacher. In the face of tremendous odds and challenges, and with the lack of financial resources to fund his education and his general welfare, he was determined to pursue his dream for a college education. He reflects on those days when he took full semester courses at the University of Indianapolis and simultaneously carried three odd jobs throughout the first few years of his college life to support himself and fund his education. He also reflects on those days when prolong starvation and the lack of all the basic necessities threatened his will to survive. He lost half his weight, he sometimes stayed in garages, while he was bedeviled by uncertainty and the fear that his dream would not be realized. He stayed steadfast with his commitment and self-determination, and in 1774, he received his undergraduate degree and his graduate degree in 1976. Frank taught elementary school in the Indianapolis public schools for three years and in the Metropolitan School District of Perry Township for thirty years. He taught various grade levels, but his final twenty-eight years were in the fourth grade. He was the coordinator of the program for the gifted students for ten years after receiving an endorsement from Purdue University. In 1995, Frank was nominated Southport Elementary School and Perry Township Teacher of the Year. He also received several awards for excellence in education from school administrators, parents, and community organizations including the Indiana Center for Leadership Development. In 2008, he received the Perry Township Award of Merit and the Martin Luther King Jr. Focusing on the Big Picture Award. Frank Kamara lives in Greenwood, Indiana, after his retirement in 2008.His first book, Grammar Skills for Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grades, was published in 2011. He is presently writing his third book about the uses of newspapers in the classroom.