GIVING LIFE A MEANING

About the Book

“Giving Life a Meaning?” addresses the truth-seeking questions about the purpose and meaning of life and its continuation. You will read about one of the worlds and Africa’s most deadly, bloody civil war ever recorded in history. Human denials of reality in their nation in the hands of their children drugged and used by rebels against their parents and those victimized by the evil civil war. The methods of insidious restraints used to kill victims. Extreme public abuses by rebel generals in the presence of children of the abused parental fatalities. The majority of the children are aged and adult siblings. Cannibalism characterized the Liberian Civil War: Rebels ate human hearts pulled from victims alive. My experience of an agape love snatched away from me in the middle of a deadly war, both mother and our daughter, as the result of a sudden illness and within a “Twinkles of an eye,” the graves blew away by the wind of despair, excruciating pains and frustrations and a lifetime grieving like many thousands of Liberian who lost their lives in despicable manners.

About the Author

Isaac Alex Yoryor was born in 1963 in Liberia, West Africa. In 1984, he graduated from Frank E. Tolbert High School, Montserrado County, Liberia, and later enrolled in the Booker T. Washington Vocational Institute in Kakata, Liberia, where he studied auto mechanics from 1985 to 1986. Mr. Yoryor enrolled in the Institute Lincoln Commercial and studied accounting shortly after arriving in Canada. Mr. Yoryor is a writer and a publisher. His works include Canadian Child Welfare System(Issues of “Systemic Racism”), and he was a contributor to the Law and Social Policy (JLSP; Osgoode Hall, School of Law, York University, Toronto). He also initiated publishing a book on the history of founding members of the refugee church at Buduburam United Methodist Church, Ghana. Mr. Yoryor enrolled at Mohawk College in the technician program for automotive energy. Mr. Yoryor also studied health care and graduated from the Personal Support Worker Program at Mohawk College. In 1990, Mr. Yoryor fled the civil war in his native Liberia to the Ivory Coast and Ghana. He lived in the Buduburam refugee camp for fifteen years and served Buduburam United Methodist Church in various capacities, including as pastor, parish chairperson, lay leader, and lay speaker. Mr. Yoryor initiated many projects, including a computer school and an elementary school under the auspices of Rev. Priscilla Legay Gilayeneh. He also wrote a history book for the United Methodist Church in Ghana detailing the church’s founding. His book describes the hard work of the founding mothers, fathers, and pastors, one who was later a bishop emeritus for the United Methodist Annual Conference Liberian. While in the refugee camp, Mr. Yoryor volunteered in social work and served as general secretary of the council of elders. Mr. Yoryor married Evelyn Larkpor Moore. His marriage was blessed with two girls, Islyn and Andriel Yoryor. Mr. Yoryor also has two older daughters, Valerie and Alexis Yoryor, and a son, Daddy Boy Yoryor. In 2009, Mr. Yoryor and members of his family became Canadian citizens. While in college, he volunteered in the international education program at Mohawk College and as a peer mentor. From 2007 to 2009, he participated in a workshop sponsored by the Department of Social Services at McMaster University in Hamilton. He also lectured a class of fifty-four students at McMaster UniversitySchool of Social Work, Hamilton. Mr. Yoryou was honoredto speak at the Children’s Aids Society, Hamilton, Ontario. Mr. Yoryor was elected church secretary at Philpot Memorial Church in 2010 and volunteers as a greeter and usher there. Mr. Isaac Alex Yoryor-III is a ministries/Christian studies graduate of McMaster University Divinity and Seminary-2020, Hamilton, Ontario-Canada. Mr. Yoryor holds over thirty certificates of merit for his services at the Liberian refugeecamp, Ghana, and in Canada.