Sojourns in West Africa is a memoir of a young man's month-long hitchhiking trip through West Africa and a tale of lasting relationships begun far from home.Join Steven Keenan on three separate West African journeys. Catch a ride on a four-thousand-mile hitchhiking trek across West Africa at the peak of the cold war. Return in 1998 with a refugee boy who, following medical treatment in the United States, is returning to his family in Ivory Coast. Visit a post-war Liberia that westerners rarely encounter and the village Keenan served years earlier as a Peace Corps teacher.Witness the generosity of the people of a small African village. Join the crew of a freight truck crossing Nigeria. Come face-to-face with boy soldiers in Liberia. Meet people, suffering unimaginable hardship, who have not lost hope in Sojourns in West Africa.
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Steven Keenan joined the Peace Corps after graduating from college in 1963. He taught school in Liberia, West Africa. He has worked for CARE in Egypt, and traveled extensively in Africa, Europe, and North America. He and his wife, Jackie, married in Liberia and reside in Central New York.
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Steve Keenan has written a wonderfully authentic account of Peace Corps experiences that span nearly a a lifetime. Steve's narrative demonstrates a continuing concern for the citizens of Liberia, the country in which he served in the early days of Peace Corps, and that continue to be a focus some 40 years later. Sojourns in West Africa describes, in colorful detail, three encounters with `the Mother Country': his initial experiences as a youthful adventurer and two subsequent journeys, under far more difficult circumstances, as a mature and dedicated benefactor of people he connected with some 40 years earlier.
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Sitting in the small examining room of the infirmary at the Peace Corps office in Monrovia, Liberia, I was as sick as I had ever been in my twenty-three years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peace Corps, Father Wreh, West Africa, Mother Wreh, Ivory Coast, United States, Air Ghana, Charles Taylor, Cuttington College, Club Beer, New York, Niger River, United Nations, Save Johnny, Air France, Bill Day, European Union, Kan Kan, Keenan Vocational Institute, Roberts Field, Air Mali, Paul River, Upper Volta, Martha's Elbow, Most Liberians New!
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Sitting in the small examining room of the infirmary at the Peace Corps office in Monrovia, Liberia, I was as sick as I had ever been in my twenty-three years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peace Corps, Father Wreh, West Africa, Mother Wreh, Ivory Coast, United States, Air Ghana, Charles Taylor, Cuttington College, Club Beer, New York, Niger River, United Nations, Save Johnny, Air France, Bill Day, European Union, Kan Kan, Keenan Vocational Institute, Roberts Field, Air Mali, Paul River, Upper Volta, Martha's Elbow, Most Liberians New!
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