In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics AUTH-10724201 Author: Reiner Stach

Author: Reiner Stach

ISBN10: 0984571604

90 days at a time

It is filled with intimate portraits of the kind of people

In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics AUTH-10724201 Author: Reiner StachOn August 7, 1989, Congressman Mickey Leland departed on a flight from Addis Ababa, with his thirteen member delegation of Ethiopian and American relief workers and policy analysts, bound for Ethiopia's border with Sudan. This was Leland's seventh official humanitarian mission in his nearly decade long drive to transform U. S. policies toward Africa to conform to his black internationalist vision of global cooperation, antiracism, and freedom from