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In the Spirit of the Pioneers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2019

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Life is filled with tiny ironies; or as the old ones steeped in the tradition of the church would say, “the Lord sometimes moves in mysterious ways.”

More than twenty-five years ago, after completing the two year city college degree, I applied to the BA program in history at Roosevelt University located in downtown Chicago and at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern invited me to take a series of tests. The first set of tests was to determine my intelligence quotient; the second set was designed to measure manual dexterity.

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Copyright © African Studies Association 1995

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1 Harris, Joseph E., “Profile of a Pioneer Africanist,” in Harris, Joseph, ed., William Leo Hansbury, Pillars in Ethiopian History, Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1974, pp. 330.Google Scholar