GUM OF MECAlS LIBERATION STRUGGLE - KORA

missionary in Angola; Mrs. Janet Mondlane of Mozambique; Gil Fernandes,
fkt ambassador of Guinea-Bissau to the United States; and
Ambassador Mohammed Sahnoun of Algeria. I am grateful for their
suggestions.
In addition, I wish to thank my friend and neighbor James Dickerson,
whose artistry was of great help in preparing symbolic line drawings and
the cover. I know that he gave generously of his timt and talent because of
his support for the liberation struggle in Africa.
Two individuals have been most critical to this writing and to them I am
especially indebted. The first is Karen Rothmyer, assistant professor at the
Columbia University Schwl of Journalism. Far two years she was one of
my co-workers at the ACOA and the Africa Fund. She more than anyone
else gave me editorial advice. She read the manuscript in bits and pieces
and finally the whole. Her knowledge of African affabs and her writing
sMls were invaluabIe as she gave me sound advice on where my emphases
should Lie.
The other person is my wife, Jean. She not only typed the manuscript
in its various phases, becoming something of an expert on the computer in
the process, but gave essential advice on content, structure, and gfammar
as well. She also kept me going when I occasionally wPeakeakepeped -in my
resolve to finish the work.
Finally I owe eternal thanks to my host of African friends, many of
whose names appear in the pages of this book. I am especially indebted to
Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere, who honors me by his foreword to this book.
I hope my many references to him in these pages properly reflect the fact
that there is no African leader for whom I have more admiration.