Mission to Malawi - John E. Fleming

Mission to Malawi

Memoir of an African American Peace Corps Volunteer, 1967-1969

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
120 Seiten
2024
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9349-1 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
A moving story of coming ‘home’ to Africa, where the author developed deep friendships with his Malawi neighbours and colleagues. The author relates his first Christmas spent with a Malawi family, where he was served termites; the ordeal of climbing the highest mountain in Malawi; and his battle with thousands of soldier ants.
Unlike the vast majority of Peace Corps volunteers in the 1960s, John Fleming was a young Black man who was assigned to an all-white agricultural project in Malawi, an emerging African country surrounded by White-ruled Southern Rhodesia, Mozambique, and South Africa. John wanted to be a missionary in Africa, but was put off by his encounters with self-serving White missionaries. The Civil Rights and Black Power movements influenced his world view while navigating life in an African country still controlled or greatly influenced by racist Whites.

This memoir is a moving story of coming "home" to Africa, where the author developed deep friendships with his Malawian neighbors and colleagues. The author relates his first Christmas spent with a Malawian family, where he was served termites; the ordeal of climbing the highest mountain in Malawi; and his battle with thousands of soldier ants. He also describes his experiences in the neighboring countries of Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda.

John E. Fleming served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi from 1967 to 1969. He has spent more than five decades as a director of major museums of African American history, including the National Afro-American Museum and Culture Center, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and the National Museum of African American Music. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 41 photos, index
Verlagsort Jefferson, NC
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4766-9349-8 / 1476693498
ISBN-13 978-1-4766-9349-1 / 9781476693491
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