Go Ye Afar: An African Memoir - Sr Dr Eileen Keane Irish Design the Civil War

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Go Ye Afar: An African Memoir - Sr Dr Eileen Keane Irish Design the Civil WarIn her memoir Go Ye Afar, Sr Dr Eileen Keane takes us on a journey of her work as a doctor and as a Missionary Sister of the Holy Rosary in Africa. Leaving Ireland on a cargo ship in 1961, with 5 in her pocket, she describes her experiences, both good and bad, over the following forty five years working in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Zambia. Full of grit and dogged determination, and despite the danger, she provided care to all