But there are other kinds of migrations as well, and one of the most powerful lessons of Philip D. Curtins Africa Remembered is that he shifts our entire understanding of the nature of migration. Those of us who have grown up in the United States have been taught to look on migration as in general a good thing. Certainly we understand that many people suffered sometimes unspeakable hardship at home to force them to leave, and certainly we understand that often they suffered along the way and in their first years in America. But always the story of migration for American children is presented as a story of hope, of the belief that by taking a perilous journey one may find oneself in a place where ones destiny has been changed for the better.
