When We Were Young in Africa: 1948-1960 - Softcover

Polsgrove, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941892078 ISBN 13: 9781941892077

Publisher: Culicidae Press, LLC, 2015

Synopsis

Growing up as a missionary child in West Africa, Carol Claxon Polsgrove was raised to be American, but Yoruba voices filled her days and talking drums her nights. Lifting the veil of stereotypes about missionary life, When We Were Young in Africa offers an intimate account of coming of age at a crossroads of cultures.

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About the Author

Carol Polsgrove, Professor Emerita of Journalism at Indiana Uni-versity, is author of Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause; Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement, and It Wasn’t Pretty, Folks, But Didn’t We Have Fun: Esquire in the Sixties. For more information go to her website at www.carolpolsgrove.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Culicidae Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1941892078
• ISBN 13: 9781941892077
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172