A school day for a village Krio (Creole) child of Freetown, Sierra Leone - Paperback

by Edwina Davies-Mendes (Author)

This book is a children's color book based on a typical village school day in the 70s and 80s of the Krio (Creole) Children from the surrounding villages of Free Town, Sierra Leone. Overall, these typical school days are the building blocks for most creoles in the diaspora who grew up in one of the villages of Freetown, Sierra Leone. If you ask most of them, they will tell you that their primary and secondary school experiences contribute a lot to their innate resilience in pursuing their personal goals in a western society. For most, they wonder what it would have been like, had they not have their villages' morals and values coupled with the education that their elementary and secondary schools gave them.

Author Biography

Edwina Annette Davies-Mendes earned her Ph.D. in Public Service Leadership in August, 2015. In October 2003 she received a doctoral degree in Psychologist, her dissertation focused on Adolescent Depression. She is a licensed educational psychologist and licensed educational counselor in the State of North Carolina, where she completed one of her two master's degrees in Agency Counseling with School Counseling Licensure. Edwina also has credentials in Pupil Personnel Services (Educational Psychology) and school administration in the State of California, where she earned her first master's degree in Sociology, the concentration of which addressed African Refugees in the United States and her second bachelor's degree in Behavioral Science. She earned her first bachelor's degree from the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France, majoring in bilingual education and minor in secretarial duties. She currently resides in San Jose, California.