Lutheran Mzungu: My Encounter with Cultural Difference Teaching in Tanzania

Lutheran Mzungu is an exploration of personal cultural awakening when an American Lutheran professor of English volunteered for a six-month teaching stint at a Lutheran university in Tanzania and ended up teaching British Law. She quickly found herself to be mzungu (stranger, white person, outsider) on multiple levels: racially (white), economically ("first" world versus "third"), professionally (English professor placed in the Faculty of Law), even religiously (American Lutherans often com...