Archive - April 15, 2013

  Volunteers in the African Bush:  Memoirs from Sierra Leone Edited by David Read Barker (Sierra Leone 1965–67) Dog Ear Publishing $15.00 (paperback); $3.99 (Kindle) 163 pages 2013 Reviewed by Andy Trincia (Romania 2002–04) When I was an aspiring young writer — at about age 10 — I decided that I was going to write my first novel and set it in Sierra Leone. I spun my metal globe and that’s where my finger landed. Besides, it was a cool name for a country. I still haven’t written that novel, nor been to Sierra Leone, though I have read memoirs about Ivory Coast and Liberia. That distant memory made me smile when I had a chance to read Volunteers in the African Bush:  Memoirs from Sierra Leone. The book’s editor, David Read Barker, had a lingering question in his head. He wondered if he and his fellow Peace Corps Volunteers . . .