ANNETTA MILLER, an American citizen, was born and raised in Tanzania. She has spent her entire adult life working in Tanzania, Sudan, and, since 1974, Kenya. For twenty years she taught music at Kenyatta University in Nairobi. For ten years she and her husband Harold acted as co-representatives of Mennonite Central Committee in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and (later) Sudan. She has collected over a hundred thousand African proverbs and is the author of Sharing Boundaries: Learning the Wisdom of Africa and Strange Gifts: Reflections on Aid in Africa. Annetta and Harold have two grown sons and four grandchildren.