Hold an MA; B. A. General; PG Dip Ed; PG Dip LIS, all from the University of Sierra Leone. A Semantic Scholar (AI-powered research tool for scientific literature) with profound research background. Member, Literati Club of the MCB University Press for prolific academic writers and proud winner of the R D MACLEOD AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE WRITERS (2000).

Rev. Oliver Harding is a Regentonian and a Fourahbite. Among his academic qualifications (secular and sacred) are: Four HSK certificates in Chinese proficiency
(中国证书) from the Confucius Institute, Beijing; several diplomas in religious studies, B.A. Hons. (History), Postgraduate Diploma & Master of Arts in Library, Archive & Information Studies and a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies.

He has been lecturing Syntax and Foundation Studies in the Department of Language Studies since 2000. His research interests are Syntax, Sierra Leonean Languages and particularly the grammar of Fula and Krio. Walon-Jalloh has authored six books (Voices and Passions (SLWS 2015), Hungry Vultures (SLWS 2016), Panbody Blues (SLWS 2017), Hills, Valleys & Echoes (2019), A Review of Salone Poetry Volume 1(2019) and Blood & Ballot (2019) which are published by Sierra Leonean Writers Series and are on sale at www.amazon.com, SLWS Bookstores in Sierra Leone, CLC Bookshops in Freetown and Shyllon the Bookseller on Back Street by Upper East Street around PZ Area.