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Book SynopsisVisiting Africa: A Memoir is a personal journey as well as a physical one: it is about my ongoing and evolving attempt to approach Africa and its cultures with humility and modesty and about my struggles as a privileged white man to ethically encounter and live in a world marked by injustice and racialized inequality. It takes up the present challenge of resurrecting stories that challenge dominant narratives. It is an investigation of privilege and how the privileged must overcome their own defensiveness and feelings of guilt if they are to stand in solidarity with those people they meet and write about. Finally, this book is an investigation into the possibilities of empathy.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Snapshots of Africa Chapter 1: Thinking of Africa Chapter 2: In My Mother’s Office Chapter 3: Three Weeks in Montreal Chapter 4: Teaching English in South Korea Chapter 5: In the University of Witwatersrand Chapter 6: Lisbon, Mozambique, Lisbon Chapter 7: South Africa Chapter 8: Zimbabwe Chapter 9: Tanzania Chapter: 10 Ghana Afterword: Rwanda
