Swaziland and Soweto Revisited

<p>I started to grow up in South Africa between 1946 and 1952. My mind was shaped by what I saw heard smelled feared hoped there.... Though this work uses memoir and travelogue at times I only use them to help share stories about South Africa and Swaziland that make possible a clear look at how religion music and the new capitalism of the post-apartheid years interacted with and finally defeated apartheid. Swaziland almost enclosed by the Republic of South Africa has been a refuge from an alternative to a fulcrum for the larger country with which it shares so much. As a British protectorate it was independent of though not untouched by the forces acting across the border.... The interplay between these two places has fascinated me since at age six I began to notice the world around me. ---From <em>Swaziland and Soweto Revisited</em></p><p><br></p><p>In <em>Swaziland and Soweto Revisited</em> author Lewis J. Poteet recounts his life as a missionary's son growing up in southern Africa as well as his return to the region more than half a century later after apartheid had been abolished. He also reflects on his early religious upbringing and training and how it shaped his life. The result is a memoir both insightful and moving.</p>