Escape from Portugal–the Church in Action: The secret flight of 60 African students to France

This is the story of the dramatic clandestine escape from Portugal, in June of 1961, of sixty Portuguese-speaking Africans, across Spain and into France, with the assistance of CIMADE, the French ecumenical service agency. These men and women, graduate students from Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe, studying in Lisbon, Coimbra and Porto, became the future leaders of their countries after wars of de-colonization and eventual independence.