T.P. Manus Ulzen Reveals Family History in JAVA HILL: AN AFRICAN JOURNEY

Author T.P. Manus Ulzen carefully pens a harrowing and deeply meaningful narrative that depicts a nation's evolution through ten generations of a family linking four continents in Java Hill: An African Story. This book unravels a family history and its many tumultuous struggles towards discovering the real essence of emancipation, peace and happiness.

This manuscript sat fermenting slowly over a period of about ten years after it served its cathartic purpose for the author and those who were invited to read it. In this span of time, two of Edward Ulzen's successors as head of the Nyanyiwa family of Elmina have crossed the river to meet him at the village. The venerable Supreme Court judge, His Lordship Justice Charles Hayfron-Benjamin, is gone; but before he did, he eagerly attended the commemoration of the Edward A. Ulzen Memorial Foundation on February 15, 2003, in Elmina. He accepted his customary bottle of Scotch malt and told him in good humor as he departed for Kumasi that because of his advancing age, he would drink it slowly but surely at one teaspoon a day. He expressed his pride at how his uncle had been immortalized by the establishment of the foundation. Mr. Mensah was not in his window overlooking the street when he got to Elmina last summer. The retired headmaster had been slowly fading away last year but still welcomed his whisky. His eyes had grown dim, and sadly, he was not able to succeed the judge before he was called up. It now falls on the people's generation to carry the torch and contribute effectively to the development of their country and continent for the benefit of the many underprivileged and poor who are still trying to find a path to true emancipation.

Skillfully written and highly evocative, Java Hill: An African Story is a kind of volume that offers a new kind of historical drama and that will definietly touch readers' hearts and souls.

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About the Author
Born in the gold mining hot bed of Tarkwa, Ghana, T. P. Manus Ulzen is the oldest of five children. His parents were both educators. He grew up in Bolgatanga, Wa, Wenchi, Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi in Ghana until he was 12 years old. He started high school at the age of 10 at St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast and continued his education at Kabulonga School for Boys in Lusaka, Zambia after his family left Ghana following the 1966 coup which ended Nkrumah's first republic. He returned to Ghana to complete his high school education at Ghana Secondary Technical School, Takoradi. Though, greatly interested in liberal arts pursuits, he chose medicine as a career and graduated from the University of Ghana Medical School at the age of 22, becoming the youngest physician in his country at the time.

After working as a general physician in Cape Coast, he left Ghana in 1980 for Canada to begin his specialist training. He completed his post graduate studies in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto in 1985 and has since had a successful career as an academic psychiatrist. He has been on the faculty at the University of Toronto, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and is now Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine in the College of Community Health Sciences at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he is also Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He is married to Ekua Mensah, a musician and they have three children, Adwoa, Kweku and Kofi.

Java Hill: An African Story* by T.P. Manus Ulzen
A nation's evolution through ten generations of a family linking four continents
Publication Date: May 28, 2013
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