Sojourns in West Africa

<i>Sojourns in West Africa</i> is a memoir of a young man's month-long hitchhiking trip through West Africa and a tale of lasting relationships begun far from home.</p><p>Join Steven Keenan on three separate West African journeys. Catch a ride on a four-thousand-mile hitchhiking trek across West Africa at the peak of the cold war. Return in 1998 with a refugee boy who following medical treatment in the United States is returning to his family in Ivory Coast. Visit a post-war Liberia that westerners rarely encounter and the village Keenan served years earlier as a Peace Corps teacher.</p><p>Witness the generosity of the people of a small African village. Join the crew of a freight truck crossing Nigeria. Come face-to-face with boy soldiers in Liberia. Meet people suffering unimaginable hardship who have not lost hope in <i>Sojourns in West Africa</i>.