This article offers a discussion of a collaborative international learning experience with a social work student in an MSW program in the United States. It tells the story of a particular student from Western Africa who has worked for political and civil rights as well as economic and social rights, and delineates lessoned learned by both the student and the professor through their collaboration.
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