The World is Elsewhere: My Life in Cuba and Other Places

‘So why Morocco?’ a friend asked. I shrugged my shoulders in much the same way I had done when previously asked why I had gone to Sudan as a teacher and later to Zimbabwe as an aid worker. ‘It chose me rather than the other way round,’ I said, adding that this was pretty much the story of my life. In the final part of his autobiographical trilogy Chris McIvor relates the story of his years in Morocco, his encounter with its history, geography and culture told through the people he met and the places he visited. This book is also an exploration of the rewards, challenges and contradictions of being an aid worker in a foreign country, a theme further pursued when he later moves to the islands of Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica in the Caribbean as the country director of an international charity.