Dr Lenrie Peters The Author Of The Poem Titled The Panic Of Growing Older.

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Dr Lenrie Peters was
born in 1932 in Bathurst
(The Gambia). In 1956
he graduated with a B
Sc. from the Trinity
College of Cambridge.
From 1956 to 1959, he
worked with the
University College
Hospital of London.

In 1959, he received a
Medical and Surgery
diploma from Cambridge. He holds a
Master’s degree in Arts.
From 1954 to 1955 he
was the president of
African Students’
Society of
Cambridge.
He worked as journalist
of African programs
with the BBC from 1955
to 1968. He was the
president of the Historic Commission of
Monuments of the
Gambia and President of FESTAC comity in 1977.
Mr Peters was the
President of the board
of directors of the
National library of the
Gambia and Gambia
College from 1979 to

1987. From 1985 to
1991, he was a member and President of the West African
Examination Council
(WAEC). He was
member of the jury for
the Literary prize of the
Commonwealth in 1995.
He passed away on 27
May 2009 in Dakar after
a brief illness.