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When Nigeria became Independent in 1960, Secondary schools for girls were started in rural areas to educate girls. Graduate teachers were recruited from around the world. Elizabeth joined the Church Missionary Society (CMS) as a qualified teacher and went to teach at St Monica's Grammar School in Ondo, Western Region, Nigeria from 1965 to 1970. These letters written to her parents in the UK provide an interesting account of her life and work in West Africa including comments on Nigeria's political events at that time. She continued to work with CMS in Vining College, Akure until 1990. Letters sent from Vining College will be published in a second volume later.

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Elizabeth Deeks was born in Edinburgh in 1937 and educated at five primary schools in Scotland and England, and then secondary schools in Bath and Hampstead. She gained a BSc in Geography and a PGCE from Leicester University and went on to teach in Tottenham. She completed a Certificate in Religious Knowledge (CRK) and recalls that her brother then jokingly referred to her as a 'Certified Religious 'Know-all' !! In 1965 Elizabeth moved to work in Nigeria, corresponding regularly with her parents who had themselves worked there with CMS in the 1930's.

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