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Being an African Student: Stories of Opportunity and Determination
This insightful book explores the experiences of African students in the U.S. It adopts a phenomenological, inductive approach. As human beings, we are uniquely bound to our stories, memories, and histories. Using the personal stories of eleven African students, the book confronts the question, what is it like for Africans to detach from their heritage and home, and become students in the U.S.?

Being an African Student will aid in making curricula more effective and attentive to the needs of international students. The reader will see the connection between their own stories, the students' stories, and larger stories of culture and humanity.
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Being an African Student: Stories of Opportunity and Determination
This insightful book explores the experiences of African students in the U.S. It adopts a phenomenological, inductive approach. As human beings, we are uniquely bound to our stories, memories, and histories. Using the personal stories of eleven African students, the book confronts the question, what is it like for Africans to detach from their heritage and home, and become students in the U.S.?

Being an African Student will aid in making curricula more effective and attentive to the needs of international students. The reader will see the connection between their own stories, the students' stories, and larger stories of culture and humanity.
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Being an African Student: Stories of Opportunity and Determination

Being an African Student: Stories of Opportunity and Determination

by Samson Akinloye Omotosho
Being an African Student: Stories of Opportunity and Determination

Being an African Student: Stories of Opportunity and Determination

by Samson Akinloye Omotosho

Overview

This insightful book explores the experiences of African students in the U.S. It adopts a phenomenological, inductive approach. As human beings, we are uniquely bound to our stories, memories, and histories. Using the personal stories of eleven African students, the book confronts the question, what is it like for Africans to detach from their heritage and home, and become students in the U.S.?

Being an African Student will aid in making curricula more effective and attentive to the needs of international students. The reader will see the connection between their own stories, the students' stories, and larger stories of culture and humanity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761829911
Publisher: University Press of America
Publication date: 02/24/2005
Pages: 88
Product dimensions: 6.06(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Samson Akinloye Omotosho is an Adjunct Professor of Nursing at Coppin State University and the Program Director for Optimum Health Systems, an outpatient mental health clinic and rehabilitation center for children and adults.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Sound of the Knocking Shoes Chapter 4 The African Students Chapter 5 Leaving Home and Becoming a Stranger Chapter 6 Being in the U.S. Chapter 7 Concluding Thoughts Chapter 8 Now, What? Chapter 9 Bibliography
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