Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man On saving the world and

On saving the world and other triumphant failures

who broke caste rules by crossing an ocean

and privilege that threatens to consume her

who defied the idea that they were unfit for medicine by virtue of their gender

The two surrender to one night of searing honesty and passion

Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man On saving the world andMasked in the tradition of the literary confession as practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this "autobiography" purports to be the candid account of its narrator's private views and feelings as well as an acknowledgement of the central secret of his life: that though he lives as a white man, he is, by heritage and experience, an African American. Tracing his journey from the South to the North and from America to Europe and back