by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Aug 29, 2015 | Blog
“From South Central College to South Africa” is the name of my story about our trip to South Africa that came out in the Mankato Magazine this week. The biggest problem when working on the story was cutting it down to fit the magazine! It could have...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Nov 25, 2014 | Blog
From James Michener’s The Covenant, the epic 1100-page saga of South African history, comes this nugget of wisdom. All quotes below are from this historical novel. With everything happening in Ferguson, MO, my heart aches…why can’t we learn from our...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Sep 30, 2014 | Book Review
I liked this book, but I didn’t love it. I am not sure if that’s because I’ve read so many books about South Africa that this one offered me nothing new under the sun. I think I was hoping for something about the child’s perspective while...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Aug 5, 2013 | Blog
I took an illegal photo (cameras forbidden!) of this picture (imagine that–me?) in the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, just so I’d have it to compare with the photo below. SEE? It’s the SAME TABLE. This is the table where Nelson Mandela and F.W. de...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Jul 2, 2013 | Blog
I just realized I haven’t blogged since June 1. That is partly due to the fact that I could NOT blog in South Africa. I barely had internet, and when I did, the blog clogged the airwaves and crashed, so after multiple attempts, I gave up.Let it also be known...
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