My Africa
a sojourner's memoir
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" A person can be a witness to a tremendous parade of episodes and yet, if he fails to keep making something out them, he gains little in the way of experience from having been around when they happened.. It is not what happens around him that makes a man experienced; it is the successive construing and re construing of what happens, as it happens, that enriches the experience of his life" --- Constructivist psychologist George Kelly, 1963
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AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF THE STRUGGLE TO FIND MEANING IN THE STRANGENESS OF A NEW PLACE, EVENTUALLY REACHING THE CONCLUSION THAT THE WAY TO KNOW OTHERS IS TO FIND OUT HOW THEY LOOK AT YOU.
About the Author
Born and educated in the Philippines, Juan C. De los Santos was College Instructor of Economics at the University of Nueva Caceres, Naga City and the University of the East, Manila. For seven years he worked as Education Officer in Sokoto (Zamfara) State, Nigeria, where he taught in the Muslim town of Kaura Namoda. His sojourning experiences provide the inspiration for his writing that transcends boundaries from his origins to the multicultural realities of New York, where he resided and excelled in Business Management for fifteen years. My Africa, A Sojourner's Memoir is his first attempt in creative non-fiction.