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Article: AFRICAN REFUGEES: SOME PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
- Author:
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I HAD just started school when I first came into contact with a refugee, two refugees, to be precise. The event was not particularly scary, curiosity characterized the whole thing. We suddenly found ourselves together in the office of the local Catholic priest, a young energetic Dutchman who had barely settled down to work in the country as a 'White Father', the well known missionary order. As it happened, the priest spoke perfect French and even some Swahili. What followed was a direct interview which, I believe, covered mostly basics: food, name, age, class, parents, religion, friends and relatives.
Here is the story which unfolded on that bright sunny day ...
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