 Long
Journeys
An Arkansas Family in Africa …
A Scrapbook of Memories and History
Sarah McKee Burnside
ISBN 978-09768007-4-3
$24.95
8 x 10
Case bound
112 pages
This book was written to answer the many people who have asked the author,
"What was it like to grow up in Africa?" Scattered throughout the text, there
are stories‹some scary, some sad, some happy, and some frightening‹about ³home² from
different perspectives, long before the Congo became independent in 1960.
Sarah McKee Burnside was born
in 1930 at Bibanga, a mission station in what was then the Belgian Congo.
She was the youngest of four siblings. George
T. McKee and his wife, Elsie Maxfield McKee, had gone to the Congo in 1911
and stayed until 1941. Sarah grew up in the Congo first being taught by her
mother using the Calvert System, then attending boarding school when she
was eight years old. For Sarah it was the most natural way to grow up being
surrounded by Congolese natives. When she was eleven and a half, the McKees
headed for Arkansas and the United States. She never returned to the Congo.
World War II was in progress in 1941. Her parents¹ health was not robust
enough to return after the war. She graduated from Agnes Scott College with
degrees in English and French. She married a medical student who became a
pediatrician. They have a daughter and two sons. Later, when those children
were grown she earned a master¹s degree in Drama from the University
of Arkansas. They live in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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