The Great Escape That Changed Africa's Future: The Church in action and the secret flight of 60 African students to France by Harper, Charles R.

The Great Escape That Changed Africa's Future: The Church in action and the secret flight of 60 African students to France

This is the story of the dramatic clandestine escape, in June of 1961, of sixty African students...
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Author: Charles R. Harper
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The Great Escape That Changed Africa's Future: The Church in action and the secret flight of 60 African students to France by Harper, Charles R.

The Great Escape That Changed Africa's Future: The Church in action and the secret flight of 60 African students to France

€20,89

The Great Escape That Changed Africa's Future: The Church in action and the secret flight of 60 African students to France

€20,89
Author: Charles R. Harper
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This is the story of the dramatic clandestine escape, in June of 1961, of sixty African students from Portugal across Spain and into France. Most were Angolan intellectuals. Some were from Mozambique and others from Guinea-Bissau, the Cape Verde Islands, and S o Tom -and-Principe. Soon after the first anti-colonial armed rebellions broke out in Angola (March 1961), the student community in Portugal suffered increasing harassment by the Portuguese political police. Passports were confiscated and some arrests of suspected student leaders occurred. Many students - men and women - decided to flee Portugal illegally. It was risky business. False passports from friendly African countries had to be found, contacts set up for night border crossings into Franco's Spain, and then overland transportation to France. Some of the students, graduates of North American and British missionary schools in Africa, appealed to the World Council of Churches in Geneva to help them escape. The challenge was accepted by the French Protestant service agency CIMADE. The successful operation makes for exciting reading.
This updated edition includes recollections of African heads of government who participated in the Great Escape.



Author: Charles R. Harper, William J. Nottingham
Publisher: Lucas Park Books
Published: 03/23/2017
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9781603500647

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