The World In Our Time

About the Book

Without inhibitions and with remarkable sensibility, John Ras Coomson speaks about his feelings, in mood that are by turn dramatic, sensual or ironic.

The title of his collection, “The World In Our Time”, suggests from the start the topics he will treat. They are themes drawn from his own experiences – those of a black man living underground, colonialism, racism and other questions of political or religious nature.

In a language that is authentically poetic and personal, at times musical, John Ras Coomson seeks to lift the Black experiences to a level of universal artistic expression, one whose components being not to a structure, but to the culture of “The World In Our Time”.

About the Author

John Ras Coomson was born in Ghana in February 1955. He has lived and worked in Ghana, Nigeria, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom. He lost his father at the age of twelve years. After the elementary school, he worked as office messenger, and he combined with part-time studies at Takoradi Polytechnic. He left for Nigeria in 1980 where he was an accounts teacher in a college and later an Accountant/Administrator in a medium-sized company. He left Nigeria for Italy in 1984 where he was a farm labourer. He first went to the United Kingdom in January, 1985 and he combined mini-cab driving with home-study courses with Rapid Results College towards Association of Business Executives, Part I & II and Writing Course with the Writing School of Wood Green. He was in Nigeria again in 1988 when he became a member of the Association of West African Young Writers (Reading Sessions and Life Performance by members of other members’ works). He was in Germany between 1989 and 1990 doing menial work, including farm labourer. He was again in Italy between 1990 and 1994 doing menial work, including being a farm labourer, window cleaner and water pump mechanic (domestic and industrial). He was again in the United Kingdom in 1994. He did sandwich courses with Password Books, Manchester, in Introduction to Publishing, Marketing in Publishing and Design & Production in Publishing. In 1998 he registered Ras Publications Ltd; to take care of his writing career. In2000 he first registered Rainbow Coomson Ltd; to do business as a Travel Broker. In 2001 he registered a full-time course at the University of North London to read Leisure & Tourism. He was also a full-time Bus Driver. After one year he changed his course to read Accounting & Business Management. After another one year he changed his course to read Banking & Finance for new challenges at the London Metropolitan University. Stroke disease dragged the course till he graduated in 2011 in Financial Services.