This is a unique book about the biggest car convoy runaway (more than two thousand cars and trucks) from Angola ' s Nova Lisboa (Huambo) towards the then Southwest Africa (now Namibia) in 1975, just before the country ' s independence.
More than eight thousand people of all races and genders running away from civil war, street fights, and shellings between rival political party militants, thugs ' aggressions, and women and girls' rapes, while order collapsed .
This is a very hard book, researched in depth and written by a seasoned journalist, bureau chief for the Portuguese news agency in Mozambique from 1986 to 1990 and South Africa from 1990 until 2004.
It includes testimonies from ten different families that took part in that caravan, most of them already born in Angola, and original precious documents like letters written from Katwitwi, Calai, and Grootfontein refugee camps.