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Based on previously unused primary sources obtained from both sides
of the Atlantic, this study provides a more fundamental,
consistent, and balanced source-based assessment of the role of the
US Peace Corps across its entire existence in Africa. The study
sheds light on a new and intriguing historical perspective of the
Peace Corps’ meaning and significance. Though the main trust is
Cameroon, the study offers a window to understanding Peace Corps
performance in all of Africa, and the larger global community. It
examines volunteers’ service in countries including Nigeria,
Ghana, Togo, and Guinea, showing how the agency transitioned from
and Cold War agency to the Post-Cold War era, while asking
important questions about the continuous relevance of Peace Corps
in Africa. In addressing the topic, the book goes beyond the Peace
Corps and delves into America’s "Achilles heels," which was the
culture of anti-black racism, showing how it impacted US foreign
policy in the post-World War II era. The book delves into
modernization theories showing how those ideas shaped the creation
of the Peace corps, but ultimately contributed to the agency’s
problems. The book questions the Peace Corps’ effectiveness as a
development organization and much more. Yet for all the agency’s
problems, the Peace Corps served as a rite of passage for returned
Volunteers to make everlasting contributions to American life and
society. This book contributes to modern African and American
studies, and to diplomatic history.
In this unique volume, leading scholars examine how Cameroonians
organize and experience their lives under Cameroonian leadership
and local responses to that leadership. The volume offers essential
case studies that allow us to examine the lives of ordinary people
in post-colonial Africa through five lenses: politics, society and
culture, economy, international relations, and migration. It places
the nation's contemporary challenges within a broader political,
economic, and socio-cultural context, and uses that to make
recommendations for future directions. The book also celebrates
areas in which the country has done well and calls on its citizens
to build on those achievements. This volume is forward-looking and
as such raises important questions about issues of development,
ethnicity, wealth, poverty, and class.
Based on previously unused primary sources including extensive
interviews in Cameroon, personal journals, diaries, responses to
questionnaires, and a variety of secondary sources, this study is a
critical analysis of US study abroad programs in Africa. Using the
University of Dayton Cameroon Immersion program as a case study,
the work examines different aspects of experiential learning
including selection, orientation, activities of US college students
in Cameroon, post-immersion meetings, and impact of program. The
nation of Cameroon and University of Dayton are uniquely ideal for
the study as Cameroon is considered "Africa in miniature" and
serves as a window to understanding many of Africa's political,
economic, cultural, and social complexities. Located in the
American Midwest, the University of Dayton, while unique, shares
many similarities with other American universities. The study
expands the boundaries of scholarship on study abroad. By comparing
the impact of the African experience on students to that of
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in that continent, the
study opens up avenues for comparative analyses. Africa is vital to
the global community and, with its complex political, economic,
cultural, and social systems, offers important lessons to
understanding students' ability to adapt to change in a rapidly
changing global environment.
Based on previously unused primary sources including extensive
interviews in Cameroon, personal journals, diaries, responses to
questionnaires, and a variety of secondary sources, this study is a
critical analysis of US study abroad programs in Africa. Using the
University of Dayton Cameroon Immersion program as a case study,
the work examines different aspects of experiential learning
including selection, orientation, activities of US college students
in Cameroon, post-immersion meetings, and impact of program. The
nation of Cameroon and University of Dayton are uniquely ideal for
the study as Cameroon is considered "Africa in miniature" and
serves as a window to understanding many of Africa's political,
economic, cultural, and social complexities. Located in the
American Midwest, the University of Dayton, while unique, shares
many similarities with other American universities. The study
expands the boundaries of scholarship on study abroad. By comparing
the impact of the African experience on students to that of
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in that continent, the
study opens up avenues for comparative analyses. Africa is vital to
the global community and, with its complex political, economic,
cultural, and social systems, offers important lessons to
understanding students' ability to adapt to change in a rapidly
changing global environment.
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