Child of Two Worlds

"'This is the story,' writes Professor St. Clair Drake in his introduction, 'of a young African for whom the dream of an education in America became a compelling desire. Baulked in 1948 by Kenya Government officials who considered him 'subversive' because he wrote letters against racial discrimination, and who refused him the 'good conduct certificate' needed in those days to apply for a visa, he went to India, a journey for which no visa was required. Eventually he found his way to the United States. All of this he tells us in interesting detail. But the book tells us much more than this. This simple straightforward and immensely human document reveals to us what it means to one individual to be a Kikuyu, a Kenyan, and an African amid the complexities of the modern world"--Back cover.