'the Color of the Skin Doesn't Matter' : A Missioner's Tale of Faith and Politics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLaughlin, Janice.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ex-nuns--Zimbabwe--Biography.

Ex-nuns.

Zimbabwe--History--Chimurenga War, 1966-1980.

Zimbabwe.

Maryknoll Sisters--Biography.

Maryknoll Sisters.

McLaughlin, Janice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages)

Other Title:

Missioner's Tale of Faith and Politics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Modajaji Books, 2021.

Summary:

Sr Janice McLaughlin (1942-2021) was a remarkable woman, an American Maryknoll nun who dedicated her life to the twin causes of education and justice. This memoir, completed just before her death, tells her story with refreshing candor. Acknowledging her naivety, which so often gives sustenance to idealism and the drive for a better world, she wanted to be a part of the struggles for freedom and independence in Africa. Trained as a journalist, she first began work in East Africa in 1969. Eight years later, she came to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), to work as press secretary for the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace at the height of the liberation war. Here, her outrage at the brutality of the Rhodesian regime led her to be denounced as a 'terrorist sympathiser'. She was imprisoned and deported. This defining incident led her to the ZANLA camps in Mozambique where she worked as an educator. Sr Janice spent four decades of her life in Africa, mainly in Zimba?bwe. Celebrating the country's independence in 1980, she was consistently committed to work in social justice with the newly developed ZIMFEP schools, at Silveira House, and with marginal?ised communities. As Bishop Dieter Scholz points out in his Foreword, she did not evade the hard truth that after forty years the new regime has not fulfilled its promises to create greater equality of opportunity for the disadvantaged; she continued to work for a better, kinder and happier world.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acronyms

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

1. Introduction

2. What's in a Name: Tracing my Roots

3. A Dream come True: The Long Road to Africa

4. The Novitiate: A Training Ground for Mission.

5. Exposure to Mission in Practice

6. Follow the Yellow Brick Road: The Way to Kenya

7. Karibuni : A Kenyan Welcome

8. On the Front-Line in War-Torn Rhodesia

9. The Best Retreat: Imprisonment and Deportation

10. A Bittersweet Homecoming

11. In the Belly of the Beast: the Washington Office

12. A Luta Continua: With Refugees in Mozambique

13. The Diplomatic Front: Lancaster House

14. Transition to an Independent Zimbabwe

15. Strengthening Links with Mozambique

16. Opposing Visions of the Church

17. ZIMOFA: Neighbors to Neighbors

18. Going home to a Free Zimbabwe

19. Building a New Zimbabwe

20. A Cold Reception: The Zimbabwe Project

21. New Schools for a New Zimbabwe: ZIMFEP

22. With the People: Tafara Township

23. Disillusion Sets In

24. 'Knocks on the Door': Silveira House

25. Losing my Freedom: Congregational leadership

26. You don't understand: My sister's sickness and death

27. The Road Less Travelled.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781779224040

1779224044