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Working on his mother’s stall in Freetown's Cru Town Road market, young Ayo King dreamt of growing up to be a sailor so that he could sail to England and find himself an English princess. As a young man he loved downtown Freetown's nightlife and he soon became known as the ‘king of the dancefloor’. His boyhood dream became a reality when, in 1948, he took a voyage as a merchant sailor to Liverpool, England. This trip was to change Ayo's life forever, although the young African's dreams were initially subdued by the hostile reception that the indigenous population greeted him with. But then he met his dream princess.
From an early age Doreen Josebury, working on her mother's stall at Birmingham's Rag Market, would dream about becoming a nurse. Whenever her mother had enough money, she'd pay for little Doreen to have tap-dancing and ballet lessons, which is where she was also introduced to, and then fell in love with, American jazz and blues music.
It was therefore fitting that these two dance loving youngsters should eventually meet at a West African ‘shebeen’ party in Birmingham’s Balsall Heath district. They quickly fell in love with each other and got married. Though the young couple's marriage was one fraught with heartache and despair from the start, Doreen was determined to battle through the racial prejudices and hatred that beset her family in post-war British society. Raising six mixed-race children in tough, inner-city areas of Birmingham she faced challenges from many quarters, but she triumphed over all of them.
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