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GOMMA'S CHILDREN

SIAKA KROMA

ABOUT THE BOOK

The decision that changed everything...

When the Paramount Chief of Yawei Chiefdom orders each of the chiefs in his chiefdom to send their children to school for ‘formal education’, Gomna as chief of Mano, a small town in Sierra Leone’s hinterland, reluctantly obeys these orders and this transforms his life and that of his family forever. Gomna’s Children is set in nascent colonial Sierra Leone. It is one of three novels chronicling the effect of colonial administration on one prominent rural family. Others in the triad are A Corner of Time and Climbing Lilies. Take a walk in the history of Sierra Leone through the eyes Gomna and his children.