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By William J. Hemminger

ISBN-10: 0761858431

ISBN-13: 9780761858430

African Son is a list of the author’s many journeys to Africa—as a Peace Corps volunteer, Fulbright student, instructor, and traveler—over the process thirty years. those own essays diversity from sympathetic descriptions of village existence in Senegal and Cameroon to distinct debts of the wealthy actual and average worlds in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Madagascar to a mock-curriculum vitae for a Cameroonian guy whose skill-set is strangely broad. a piece of inventive non-fiction, African Son describes person and, later, kinfolk studies in a couple of African destinations, from villages to significant city facilities and from barren region to thick, tropical woodland.

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