Stephanie Jill Hodge – a Newfoundland native embarks on the journey of her life as a development volunteer and teacher in rural Botswana 1990-1992. Running in Africa is a tale of Hodge’s growth and empowerment through running, teaching and adventure. This is a humorous and deeply personal account of young women facing her fears, gaining newfound insights, skills and abilities to deal with those fears. In addition to the above, this book presents an insightful first-hand account of novice insider’s views, a teacher’s perspective of the interlinked issue of poor quality education, destructive social norms, widespread poverty, disease, drought and environmental degradation impacting on rural development in Africa. also see www.runninginafrica.com
After two years in Botswana – a finishing statement…
‘In November 1992, I finally left Botswana and moved onwards to the Cape of Good Hope where I secured a position as an exchange physical education and geography teacher at the Rondebosh Junior Girls School in Claremont. This was a position for which I was entirely qualified. In addition, I looked forward to exploring the Cape during interesting times. The year was 1993 and Cape Town was exploding after years of apartheid. The explicit separation between blacks and whites was a stark contrast. Between the parlors of the whites on the Cape of Good Hope, the blacks and the beautiful colored human products of racist hypocrisy in Kylisha Township (Outside Of Cape Town). I wanted to be there’.
