Arthur Smith was conceived and was educated in Freetown

history channel documentary science At an open address in 2000, cited by Kole Ade-Odutola in Africa News, the elderly yet vivacious Ekwensi communicated his longing to "assemble and sustain youthful personalities in the traditions and conventions of their groups" through his works. He clarified, "African journalists of the twentieth century acquired the oral writing of our predecessors, and expanding on that, put at the inside phase of their fiction, the qualities by which we as Africans had lived for a considerable length of time. It is those qualities that make us the Africans that we are- - recognizing great and wickedness, equity and treachery, mistreatment and opportunity." tuned in to the times, he had begun independently publishing his compositions on the Internet. In spite of the caprices of the African distributed world, at age 80 Ekwensi was all the while seeking after his objective in light of the fact that as he wrote in his paper for The Essential Ekwensi 15 years prior, "The fulfillment I have picked up from composing can never be measured."

Arthur Smith was conceived and was educated in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He has taught English since 1977 at Prince of Wales School and, Milton Margai College of Education. He is presently a Senior Lecturer at Fourah Bay College where he has been addressing English dialect and Literature for as long as eight years.Mr Smith's compositions have been showing up in nearby daily papers and in addition in different universal media like West Africa Magazine, Index on Censorship, Focus on Library and Information Work. He was one of 17 universal guests who took an interest in a course on contemporary American Literature supported by the U.S.State Department in 2006. His developing musings and reflections on this trek which took him to different US sights and sounds could be perused at lisnews.org. His different productions include: Folktales from Freetown, Langston Hughes: Life and Works Celebrating Black Dignity, and 'The Struggle of the Book' He holds a PhD and a residency in English from the National Open University, Republic of Benin.