The Boy from Pleebo
A Story of Survival and Perseverance
Paperback
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Product description...
Have you ever wondered: “Did that emaciated and tattered-clothed African refugee
child on TV ever have childhood aspirations?” Meet Sylvester Youlo—born to
teenage parents in Pleebo, a small town in Liberia, where survival into
adulthood isn’t sure, and a college education is an impossible dream.
Consequence of a class-segregation created by free slaves from the United States that settled in this coastal West African country in 1821, it is at five years
of age when Sylvester first realizes that the woman he knows as Yah is his
grandmother; that his parents moved to the affluent city of Monrovia—a city that
holds the keys to success—in pursuit of the life of the country’s elite
Americo-Liberians when he was only nine months old. But just as he begins to
understand this reality, and starts to imagine a glorious future alongside his
parents in the big city, life implodes when Grandmother inexplicably ‘abandons’
Sylvester to relatives, and a brutal civil war that will kill and maim thousands
soon begins.
The Boy from Pleebo is the gut-wrenching yet heartwarming story of a young
African child’s struggle to maintain his innocent-optimism in the face of
crippling illnesses, poverty, near-death experiences from a war fraught with
ethnic cleansing of his tribe, his hopeless journey through years of refugee
camps, and how he became one of top graduates in an American medical school. It is a story of perseverance, survival, and never quitting on a dream.
(Title change. Previously titled, A Series of Transforming events as an ebook)
Product details...
Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 299 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Jul 29, 2014)
ISBN10: 1478735619
ISBN13: 9781478735618
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Author Information...
Dr. Sylvester Youlo was born in Liberia, West Africa. He moved to the United
States after spending almost six years in various refugee camps in Africa, due
to a civil war that killed thousands in his home country. His life, the
sociopolitical make-up of Liberia, and how that led to a fourteen-year civil war
is the basis of The Boy from Pleebo. 
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