When the Covid-19 pandemic struck Kenya in March 2020, art connoisseur Alan Donovan found himself isolated in his home overlooking the Nairobi National Park. Confinement was the impetus to start writing his memoirs, An American in Africa: 50 Years Exploring African Heritage and Overcoming Racism in America.
Born in 1937, Donovan first came to Africa in 1967 as a USAid food relief officer in Nigeria during the Biafra civil war. It was the realisation of a lifelong dream, but happening against the unfolding horrors of a “forgotten war of Africa” that led to the deaths of an estimated two million people in two years.
