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Mission to Malawi : Memoir of an African American Peace Corps Volunteer, 1967-1969, Paperback / softback Book

Mission to Malawi : Memoir of an African American Peace Corps Volunteer, 1967-1969 Paperback / softback

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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 Malawi neighbors 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.

Included are accounts of his exploits in the neighboring countries of Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda.

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