My Year in Africa and How One Thing Led to Another

A casual conversation with the author's father led to a year of study, adventure, and self-discovery as an exchange student in Africa in the early 1970s. The year was punctuated by riots on campus, visits to game parks, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, witnessing apartheid in South Africa, and surviving a fatal car accident. But just witnessing daily life taught many lessons to an American teenager from the suburbs.