Gambian Authors Best Selling Book: The Search for a Lost Brother

My Biography:

Yankuba Mamburay was born in Kiang Jasobo. His parents and the entire family moved to Faraba Banta when he was just about two years old. He went Faraba Banta Primary School and in 1983 he was transferred by his brother, Sanna Mamburay, from Faraba Primary school to Methodist Primary School in McCarthy, Jangjangbureh, where he did his Common Entrance Examination. He attended Saint Augustine's High Schhol between 1984 and 1991, where he did his GCE O'Level and A’ Level. He attended the International Islamic University of Malaysia between 1992 and 1996 and graduated with Bachelor of Business Administration.

He taught Lower six and Upper six students at his alma mater, Saint Augustine's High School, in the 1996/97 academic year. He was one of the pioneers of the Arab Gambian Islamic Bank Ltd., where he worked between 1997 and 2000. He attended Jackson State University, Mississippi in 2001, to do his master's (MBA) degree. He later transferred his credits to University of Phoenix where he graduated with MBA in February of 2006. Yankuba has worked as a marketing officer, a teacher, a banker, a financial consultant, and he is also a certified and licensed Life and Health insurance agent.

His Book: The Search for a Lost Brother

This is a true story about a young man, Yankuba, who was born in a small African farming community. As he grew up he heard about a brother who traveled far and wide. In his community farm size is determined by the size of the family. So the absence of this brother left a big hole in the family’s structure. The family became devastated by the news that their long-lost son was in Liberia, where civil war broke out in 1989. In the year 2000, the author embarked on a dangerous journey to the war-torn country in search of his brother, without any clue where the brother lived. While searching for his brother in Liberia, he came across several military checkpoints and was apprehended by Charles Taylor’s troops who accused him of illegal blood-diamond trafficking.

Read to see how this adventurous, highly emotional, electrifying, and suspenseful story unfolds. The book is now available at all major bookstore and web sites, such as www.barnesandnoble, www.amazon.com, www.target.com, www.publishamerica.com

The publisher's number and address are as follows:

Publish America

P. O. Box 151

Frederick, Maryland 21705

USA

Tel: 301-695-1707