Contentment Is Great Gain: A Missionary Midwife in Sierra Leone

by Lois Olsen

Book Overview

It was an interesting time to live in Sierra Leone, West Africa during the 1950's. All the countries of Africa were inching away from being European colonies to becoming independent nations. Sierre... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965448800
• ISBN13: 9780965448802
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Leone Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Lost Sierra Leone

This is a picture of Sierra Leone as it existed in the 1950's and early 1960's, written with clarity and compassion by a committed nurse-midwife missionary. She describes the upcountry outpost as she found it and as she transformed it. She also describes her fight to do her job within the confines of the conventions of that time. Both the missionary board and society here and in Sierra Leone presented her with a dizzying set of expectations and restrictions. Nevertheless she prevailed providing a service that was unavailable from anyone else.