Mission to Malawi

<p> Unlike the vast majority of Peace Corps volunteers in the 1960s John Fleming was a young Black man who was assigned to an all-white agricultural project in Malawi an emerging African country surrounded by White-ruled Southern Rhodesia Mozambique and South Africa. John wanted to be a missionary in Africa but was put off by his encounters with self-serving White missionaries. The Civil Rights and Black Power movements influenced his world view while navigating life in an African country still controlled or greatly influenced by racist Whites.</p><p> This memoir is a moving story of coming home to Africa where the author developed deep friendships with his Malawian neighbors and colleagues. The author relates his first Christmas spent with a Malawian family where he was served termites; the ordeal of climbing the highest mountain in Malawi; and his battle with thousands of soldier ants. He also describes his experiences in the neighboring countries of Zambia Tanzania Kenya and Uganda. </p>