ABSTRACT
My husband and I had been in the Peace Corps in Nigeria in the late 1960s and we very much wanted to return to West Africa. He is a physician and became a Fulbright Specialist as well, and thus we were able to process this experience together. Though we waited patiently, no opportunity materialized in West Africa, and the Fulbright office asked us-about two months before we hoped to leave-if we were interested in going to Namibia. It was an unknown country to me. I was shocked to learn one week before departure that Namibia had suffered a full-blown apartheid regime, functioning virtually as a protectorate of South Africa until it became independent as late as 1989.
