Sojourns in West Africa

About the Book

Sojourns in West Africa 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.

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.

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 Sojourns in West Africa.

About the Author

Steven Keenan joined the Peace Corps after graduating from college in 1963. He taught school in Liberia, West Africa. He has worked for CARE in Egypt, and traveled extensively in Africa, Europe, and North America. He and his wife, Jackie, married in Liberia and reside in Central New York.