born 14. 01. 35
Training:
4 university degrees: Dr. theol. from Schoeneck (CH), Fordham+Union S. (NY); MA in sociology/anthropology from Fordham+Columbia (NY); MSJ in journalism from Medill School of J. (Evanston Ill.) and MS trop.agric. (Manila, Nairobi).
Specialties:
Independent development consultant, Africa specialist, active in cultural dialogue, researcher in African agricultural history, journalist, also poet and short story writer.
Activities… miscel.
Author of more than 50 books (15 still on the market). The first «China» as model of development was translated into English and published by Orbis Books, Maryknoll NY.
Radio correspondent on African topics for Voice of Germany (Cologne), Swiss Radio International, ARD (Network of German Public Radios).
Intensive weekly seminars on African agriculural history at universities in Nigeria, Cameroon, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Evaluation of development projects in 8 different African countries.
Member of Novartis Foundation agricultural research team.
Short story teller in Namibia and Zimbabwe on a special program.
Short story and poetry writing courses in Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
And looking for a publisher…
to publish 300-page manuscript on
"30'000 Years of African Agricultural History".
Work in Progress
on "African Religion as a World Religion".