African Chronicles is a memoir covering
\ntwo years in the lives of Burris and Louanne
\nDevanney, but also spanning forty-five years of development work in Africa. It is a montage of compelling episodes \u2013 tragic, comic, ironic, capricious and inspiring \u2013 depicting critical junctures in the lives of remarkable individuals and of countries on the edge: V.1- Rhodesia-Zimbabwe and V.2 – Nigeria-Biafra. Embedded in the narrative are singular perspectives on Africa\u2019s recent history and the \u201cGreat Game of Development.\u201d The memoir engages with immediacy and retrospective insight the seemingly brutal question: What
\nhappened to the bright prospects of post-colonial Africa? This question animates the entire memoir, making it a narrative of empathy and understanding. \u201cA searing indictment of the \u201cMasters of
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