1st Edition
Deaf German Missionary Berta Foster (1939-2018) and Deaf Education in West Africa A Woman in the Background
By Anja Werner
Copyright 2027
284 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
In 1960, twenty-one-year-old Berta Zuther left her life in West Berlin behind to join African American missionary Andrew Foster in Ghana, thus embarking on a journey that would span three continents and result in the establishment of schools for the deaf across Africa. Berta and Andrew were both deaf themselves. They got married in Nigeria in 1961 and devoted their lives to building educational... Read more
1. Live, Love, Learn: The Zuther-Roloff Family 2. Educating a Deaf Child in War and Peace, 1939-1959 3. The Road to Africa, 1959-1960 4. New Beginnings in Ghana, 1957-1965 5. Building Schools for the Deaf in Nigeria, 1960-1967 6. Turmoil on Both Sides of the Atlantic, 1967-1975 7. More Schools, More Schooling, More Challenges, 1974-1987 8. Homegoings
Biography
Anja Werner works as a freelancer historian and writer in Germany.
