Her creative approaches to developing and sharing lesson plans, provided invaluable technical support to hundreds of social studies teachers and other educators in the US and Africa. She began a life-long career as a professional writer and educator. She obtained a masters degree, and later a doctorate. She submitted articles to popular magazines. She penned personal essays that documented her early years. She read, and read some more, achieving an impressive list of some of the most important African writers currently known. Behind gold-rimmed glasses, her liquid brown eyes laughed and her voice was gently mocking, but her rather thin lips remained pressed together in a straight line. She adjusted the knot of the lappa cloth she’d wrapped around her faded housedress. My novel would feature Liberians, of course. A number of Peace Corps Volunteers have wanted to be novelists or at least writers of memoirs. “Once upon a time, I planned to write a novel set in Liberia,” writes Angene Wilson in her recent book, Africa on my Mind. Africa on My Mind: Living Peace Corps’ Third Goal
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