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Title:'Entirely Christian and entirely African': Catholic African students in France in the era of independence
Author:Foster, ElizabethISNI
Year:2015
Periodical:The Journal of African History (ISSN 0021-8537)
Volume:56
Issue:2
Pages:239-259
Language:English
Geographic term:France
Subjects:students
Africans
Catholic Church
pan-Africanism
1950-1959
External link:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853715000201
Abstract:This article examines the activism of militant Catholic African students in France in the 1950s. Largely left out of the historiography of the period, they developed a unique perspective on Africa's future, informed by their dual (and often fraught) identity as Africans and Catholics. They undertook a strident campaign to convince French Catholics and the Church hierarchy of the necessity of decolonization, trying to change the Church from the inside. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]

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