From 1971 to 1973, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan where he taught English language at Kabul University.

[2] Of the experience he said “What it did for me was open me up to the vast cultural currents that traversed Afghanistan over historical time.

The great Mogul Empires had housed themselves there, and various other significant populations that I had read about in school.

So today, you have young people who are training to be linguists, and they work with a native speaker.

By studying your language you learn something about who you are, especially at a university,”[5][6] Schaefer and Egbokhare have worked together for over thirty years.