About the Author
The author, Arolyn Ibrahim Nfagie Koroma, was born in 1957 in Port Loko District in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He is a playwright/screenwriter, a novelist, a journalist, and a tra...vizualizați mai multeAbout the Author
The author, Arolyn Ibrahim Nfagie Koroma, was born in 1957 in Port Loko District in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He is a playwright/screenwriter, a novelist, a journalist, and a trained economist/accountant. He worked as an accountant for a total of nineteen years, beginning with the Bank of America in San Mateo in 1985 and the CPA firm of Siba & Associates in Oakland, California. He worked as a manager and auditor at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Falls Church, Virginia, and the Hyatt Hotel at the capital in Washington, DC, USA. He works for Eagle Technologies, a Homeland Security corporation in Maryland and Washington, DC, since 2007.
He produced his first play, Sofia and the Misfortune of the HIV/AIDS, at the James Moore Theater in Oakland City in 1994. Coproduced with Dr. Fikre Tolossa (Ethiopian), the play The Coffin Dealer and the Grave Digger was staged in the city of Berkeley in 1995. Natural disasters (storm) shut down the second production of Sofia and the Misfortune of the HIV/AIDS at the Oakland Lorraine Hansberry Theater in 1996.
Koroma took to writing in 1993. He has since authored for hire and produced two plays in California. He had published four textbooks. He wrote The Odyssey of Brima Falla (An African Child Soldier) a novel; Bambara Samba (King Tom), a play; and Lethal Money, which is also a novel. They are all educationally entertaining and are available in bookstores.vizualizați mai puține