The life well spoken

Stuart Morton enjoys a story of personal witness in Africa

Homes in a South African township. | Photo: Simon Hariyott / flickr CC.

When a person you know and respect writes an authentic autobiography, which touches on aspects of your own life journey, almost every page holds some fascination that brings both enjoyment and challenge.

This is my experience of Brian Brown’s Born to be Free – The indivisibility of Freedom, subtitled A Methodist Minister’s Quest for Justice and Freedom on Two Continents. I hold these two continents, Europe and Africa, in common with Brian, having spent most of my life in Britain and also being strongly connected to Southern Africa through my Namibian wife, Willemina.

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