Thank you so much. Thank you all for coming. It’s a great pleasure for me to be here with all of you.
First, a little about me. Please check my website, richardsacks.com, for imformation about the book and pictures of Africa.
I joined the State Department Foreign Service in 1989. I was posted with my family to six countries in Asia, North Africa, and Latin America. And I held a bunch of increasingly important jobs in Washington. I have two graduate degrees — one from Johns Hopkins University in...