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Back in 1977, I was about to graduate from Wesleyan University in my home state of Connecticut, but without a job. I’d been to parts of East and West Africa by then, so the prospect of teaching in South Africa had a kind of glib, complete-the-tour-of-Africa appeal. My South African-born history professor, Jeff Butler, who had begun his teaching career at Kingswood College in Grahamstown, was kind enough to write on my behalf to a few South African private school headmasters.