New PDF release: The Great Escape That Changed Africa's Future: The Church in

By Charles R. Harper,William J. Nottingham

this can be the tale of the dramatic clandestine get away, in June of 1961, of sixty African scholars from Portugal throughout Spain and into France. such a lot have been Angolan intellectuals. a few have been from Mozambique and others from Guinea-Bissau, the Cape Verde Islands, and São Tomé-and-Principe. quickly after the 1st anti-colonial armed rebellions broke out in Angola (March 1961), the scholar group in Portugal suffered expanding harassment through the Portuguese political police. Passports have been confiscated and a few arrests of suspected scholar leaders happened. Many scholars - women and men - determined to escape Portugal illegally. It used to be dicy enterprise. fake passports from pleasant African international locations needed to be stumbled on, contacts arrange for evening border crossings into Franco's Spain, after which overland transportation to France. a few of the scholars, graduates of North American and British missionary faculties in Africa, appealed to the area Council of church buildings in Geneva to assist them break out. The problem was once permitted by way of the French Protestant provider supplier CIMADE. The profitable operation makes for stimulating reading.
This up to date version contains memories of African heads of presidency who participated within the nice Escape.

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