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J Ninsel Warner’s Book “Africa and Children” hits the stand
By Staff Reporter
A Liberian resident in Minnesota,
Mr. J Ninsel Warner, has released a rich book on Liberian political cultural. The book is now on the book stand and is among
the
bestseller of books published by a Liberian author.
The
book, Africa and Children, is a breath-taking political satire which is seasoned with the romantic story of Mary Boryonon
Tweh and her husband, Clinton Simpson. Mary Tweh and her husband do not have any children.
It is the general belief by some Africans (majority) that every family must bear children by all means, even if that
would mean consulting the medicine-man or witch-doctor in the village; and yet, everybody cannot have children. Meanwhile,
any man or woman cannot have children is said to be cursed by nature or by the Gods of Africa.
Children represent social security in Africa because there are no funds or social security programs to take care
of the elderly. There are no nursing homes in Africa either.
The protagonist
of the book, Mary Tweh, represents the two classes of people in Liberia ---the aborigines or natives and congoes or descendants
of free slaves who founded the tiny West African country of Liberia on July 26, 1847. Some 40,000 free slaves left the United
States of America in early 1800s, returned to the then dark continent of Africa and settled on the west coast of Africa
(the area then known as the “Grain Coast”) and founded Liberia (Liberia means free). The pioneers returned to
Africa to foster peace, Liberty and justice for all.
As the new African
woman, Mary Tweh is married to her husband not necessarily to have children, but because she is in love with her husband.
Ironically, Mary Tweh is discriminated against by some Monrovians because of her ethnical background. Discrimination,
nepotism, corruption and other ills paved the way for the April 12, 1980 coup, as well as the Liberian civil war started in
1989 and left over one hundred and fifty thousand people dead.
J Ninsel
Warner, Sr., Journalist, educator, an author, was born in Kanweaken, Liberia in 1944. A graduate of the University of Liberia,
he earned interdisciplinary master’s degree in Public Relations and English at the University of Toledo, Ohio in 1980.
He is former Assistant Minister for Public Affairs of the Liberian Government, Lecturer of English and Public Relations at
the University of Liberia, Monrovia, and Manager of Information and Public Affairs of the Liberian Electricity Corporation
(LEC). Currently he is an employee of Environmental Service, Mystic Lake Casino-Hotel in Prior Lake Minnesota.
Mr. Warner is also the founder and Senior Pastor of the Hope of Glory Church, a non-denominational Christian Ministry
in New Hope, Minnesota. He and his wife of twenty-five years, Mary Musu Warner, their six children and ten grand Children
live in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
To get a copy
of this thought provoking and interesting book, call Rev. J Ninsel Warner at 763-561-3891
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