ABSTRACT
A young African-American woman who is a pediatrician with public health training goes to work in a small, war-affected town in Mozambique. Her time in Mozambique transforms her perceptions of the world, helping her see that Mozambique is a part of the true center, where most people live and die. She learns that she must decolonize her mind repeatedly, discarding many assumptions that she carried with her, in order to understand the lives and needs of women and children in the community that she serves.
