Africa Ago
In 1968, aged 21, John Western left England, not realising that he might never bother to return. The boy who had always loved maps, trains and travel to new places was posted by Voluntary Service Overseas to a missionary school in rural Burundi, Central Africa. From the world’s longest-industrialised country, he pitches into what was probably then its least industrialised nation. For two years, We...
In 1968, aged 21, John Western left England, not realising that he might never bother to return. The boy who had always loved maps, trains and travel to new places was posted by Voluntary Service Overseas to a missionary school in rural Burundi, Central Africa. From the world’s longest-industrialised country, he pitches into what was probably then its least industrialised nation. For two years, We...
