John M. Janzen is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, USA. Harold F. Miller served as a fraternal ecumenical service worker in Tanzania, Sudan, and Kenya, and is now retired in Virginia, USA. John C. Yoder is a Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at Whitworth University, USA.
Intensely personal at times, and biographical in scope, this collection of essays takes its readers through four general sections: Pioneers, Professors, Practitioners, and Observations from the outside. The Pioneers section highlights three early Africanists from the Mennonite tradition: Donald Jacobs, Melvin Loewen, and David W. Shenk ... Ultimately, this volume is a wonderful account of a generation of scholars and practitioners of and in Africa from the Anabaptist tradition that made a profound impact on African Studies. It had the honest and vulnerable feel to Bronislaw Malinowski's A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term (1967), about scholars and researchers from the Global North, often unprepared, conducting fieldwork in the Global South. Adam Mohr, University of Pennsylvania