Maurice Williams

Maurice York Williams is the current President of Mandinka, having taking the office upon uniting the Mandé people of West Africa in 2001. He was born on July 7, 1979, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Rollace and Binta Williams.

Biography
Maurice Williams was born and raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, to a African-American father and a Mandinka mother, who had fled her home country of Sierra Leone in 1967. His father was a staunch Baptist minister, and his mother a Roman Catholic. Thus, he was typically taken to his father church during Sundays, while his mother read her Bible to him on most other days. Throughout his childhood and early teens, Maurice was highly interested in the ongoings of other nations, and the ideals of strongmen such as Fransico Franco, Hitler, and Stalin. The wars they lead, and the ideas they pioneered at the time inspired Maurice to one vendicate them, and clear their names of the atrocities they'd commited in their attempts to better the world. Throughout the late 1980s, Maurice studied politics, law, and economics, and graduated from high school in 1997. The following year, he was enrolled in the Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama by his mother, who wanted him to get a decent education, and make something of himself, a choice his father supported as well.

Maurice's political idealism and favoritism of the Nazis and Communists was not well recieved by the other students at the university, and he was repremanded multiple times until he was eventually thrown out on the grounds of starting a fight with other members of his class. He managed to return in March 2000, and recieved his bachelor's degree in economics, after a deal was struck with the dean of the university. Alleged rumors of bribery and blackmail surrounded the agreement, but no investigation was launched into the matter. Maurice left for Liberia in June 2000, to start up a business in the post-war nation, and help rebuild with the encouragement of his mother. There, he would begin work on creating Mandinka upon witnessing the sufferings of the people. He interfernce with the matters there would be something of a two-edge in the later years. However, he was able to get into contact with several West Africa heads of state, rebel leaders, civilian officials, to begin work on a new age for the region.