In a fascinating narrative of  No road signs, no manuals book stretching from the late1930s all the way to 2016, Professor Asante speaks eloquently from many  different places and times as he traces the trajectory of his amazing life and its several intersections. More than an individual  narrative of self-development and maturation, his autobiography is the story of a community, a family, and a nation. Through  Asante’s eyes we experience life in a rural village in Ghana’s Eastern region, relive with him his tortuous struggle for  education, explore the political dramas of newly independent Ghana, follow an illustrious career in academia and the United  Nations, and finally grasp the enormity of his philanthropic ventures in his rural community. Asante offers all these different  areas of his life as inextricable components of his fully lived life, leaving us the chance to draw out lessons and signposts for  our own lives in the present. This is just what an autobiography should ideally offer: a portrait of the individual life, enlarged  by the stories of fellow travelers as well as the larger stories of the community and the nation. In Asante’s autobiography all  these multiple stories are filtered through a critical eye and suffused with insights and lessons to ponder again and again.  His book is a remarkable feat and a really treasured read.

Nana Wilson – Tagoe (Dr.), Professor of Black Studies University of Missouri, USA

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