Rosemary ManchesterRosemary Manchester created her first book, Kusoma Furaha, in Swahili, for a literacy campaign in the Belgian Congo in 1960. She and her husband, parents of four small children, served as missionaries in the Congo from 1958 until 1963. This is her meoir about those years. At the age of seventy-five, she received a master's degree in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. She lives in Sebastopol, California, where she recently celebrated her ninety-third birthday. Read More Read Less