Footpaths of Africa Never Run Straight: A Cross-Cultural Journey

Readers are invited to walk the meandering footpaths of Africa and to glean novel and rich insights from that travelling. As unpredictably as the wind's blowing, ordinary moments come alive. In the remarkable story Footpaths of Africa Never Run Straight, fresh light is shed on one of the great challenges of our times: finding ways for different cultures to live together amicably and productively. The Western and African mindsets are contrasted. The book shows how, if genuinely reciprocal, mutually beneficial relationships can be established. Footpaths follows the life of a white child born of missionary parents, raised and schooled on Zimbabwe's unique earth, breathing its distinctive air and ultimately having little option but to emigrate. The once grand notions of extending empire, bringing light to a dark continent, and spreading the kingdom of God, are no longer applicable. Concepts like homeland, nation, progress, primitiveness, and poverty need major reappraisal. Aid offered by the developed to the developing world usually alienates more than alleviates. David H M Wright was born to missionary parents in former Southern Rhodesia. A schoolmaster for almost 40 years, he migrated to Australia in 1982. He is now retired and lives and writes in Tasmania, with intermittent visits to Francistown, Botswana, to help establish a new independent high school there. He is a graduate of the universities of Natal, Oxford (Oriel College as a Rhodes Scholar), Rhodesia, and Sydney. Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/DavidHMWright