About the Author

Abdulai Walon-Jalloh the author was born in 1970 in Freetown and attended the UMC Primary School Fattah Rahman Street Ginger Hall, Sierra Leone Muslim Congress Boys' Secondary School Kissy Mess Mess and Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School Kissy Dock Yard in Freetown. He furthered his studies at Fourah Bay College for both B.A Honours and M.Phil Linguistics degrees. He is also pursuing his PhD in Linguistics and Language Education at Njala University. Walon-Jalloh is the author of "Voices and Passions" (SLWS 2015) which is a collection of poems. He is married and together they have three sons and two deceased daughters. He is, currently, a lecturer of Syntax in the Linguistics Unit Department of Language Studies Fourah Bay College University of Sierra Leone.