Polsgrove memoir links two cultures
Professor Emerita Carol Polsgrove is author of a new book, When We Were Young in Africa: 1948-1960, that Culicidae Press will publish Dec. 11.
The book is a memoir sharing her life growing up as a missionary child in West Africa. Polsgrove was raised in American culture, but that of the Yoruba people affected her, too. Her memoir reveals the reality about missionary life and is a coming-of-age story for a girl torn between two cultures.
Polsgrove started working as an Indiana University journalism professor in 1989 and retired in 2008. She received the Gretchen A. Kemp Award for outstanding teaching twice. She was known for providing unique hands-on experiences for students, leading them on reporting field trips to jails, courtrooms, city council meetings, the French Lick casino and even a trip to the Gulf after Hurricane Katrina tore apart Mississippi and Louisiana.
She is the author of several other books, including It Wasn’t Pretty, Folks, But Didn’t We Have Fun?: Esquire in the Sixties; Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement; and Writers in a Common Cause: Ending British Rule in Africa.
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