Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Karefa-Smart wonders where he will be a year from now. The tall, trim visiting professor of International Health may still be at the Medical School, lecturing on preventive medicine and world health. Or he might be back in West Africa, helping fellow Africans survive the unending five-year drought. But, if he had his way, he would be home in what he calls "my little country," in Sierra Leone, where re-arrest and imprisonment may await...
...Sierra Leone were to suspend tomorrow the four-year-old state of emergency--declared the last time Karefa-Smart came home--and the government withdrew its warning to him to stay out of the country, he could probably be packed in time for an afternoon flight. His office at 641 Huntington Ave. is clearly a temporary measure, dominated not by a massive oaken desk, but by a few filing cabinets and bulletin boards. There is another map of Africa, perforated by colored push-pins, and an exhortation, carefully written in magic marker on lined yellow paper, to remember that...
...sudden departure would not be too traumatic. By now, Karefa-Smart must be used to drastic changes in his life--once, he was taken from his dinner table in Sierra Leone, imprisoned, and released just as unexpectedly 141 days later. Having witnessed the confusion and coups of Sierra Leone's birth and growing pains, he realizes that he cannot enjoy a peaceful retirement after a long, lucrative practice like that of most of his McGill classmates. His open-end appointment at Harvard is as secure...
...Karefa-Smart traces his determined optimism and sense of community to his childhood among the indigenous tribes of Sierra Leone. His grandfather was Paramount Chief of the area, and concern for all of the Chief's subjects naturally flowed to others in the ruling family...
...believe in playing politics hard, but I am also smart." (March...