American Boy - Soremekun, Fola

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Biographie:
Professor Fola Soremekun was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria on October 10, 1934. He came to the United States, aboard a freighter, in 1956 to attend college and ultimately earned his PhD in history from Northwestern University, got married, and started a family. In 2012, he retired with over fifty years of experience teaching at colleges and universities across America, Africa, and other parts of the world. The author of numerous scholarly works and books, he and his wife, Elizabeth, also a professor, founded Highlands Education International (HEI) and HEI school in Gembu, Nigeria, where they currently live. He has three daughters and five grandchildren. www.highlandseducation.org....

Sommaire:
This is an exhilarating autobiography of a dreamer, adventurer, historian, and a pioneer. In a captivating narrative that holds the readers attention throughout, Professor Soremekun weaves emotional, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous stories of his life in the context of his beloved family, his unshakeable faith, and major historical world events all of which greatly influenced him. The theme that drives and sustains him is truly the American spirit, in which he steeped himself at a young age. That and an innate drive early on in life earned him the nickname American Boy by his Nigerian peers. The culmination of his dreams was his journey, by sea, to the United States for school in 1956 and a half-century teaching career that periodically took him back to Africa (Nigeria and Zambia) and to traverse other continents and countries around the globe. After retiring in 2012 from Citrus College in California, Professor Soremekun returned to his native Nigeria where he currently lives out his dream of training a new generation inspired by the same ideals....