Echoes of Africa is based primarily on weekly letters which Dennis wrote to his mother from1958 to 1966 when Dennis and his wife, Ena worked as missionaries in what was Northern Rhodesia and later became Zambia. The letters and this book are a record of a long-lost way of life the Fowler family experienced among the Ila people of Southern Zambia. It includes anecdotes, characters and observations of everyday life, and presents a fascinating picture of two cultures - European and African - in rural Africa at the end of the colonial era. Fluent Ila speakers, Dennis and Ena Fowler are the authors of a number of books and papers on the Ila language, culture and folklore.