White Shadow: Godmother to a Revolution

“She was overcome with the sense that she’d known him in another time, that somehow she was drawing this dark man toward her.” Seventeen-year-old Janet fell in love when she heard Eduardo speak about Africa at church camp in 1951 and this love defined the rest of her life. The agony of racial discrimination, alienation from family, the pain of separation, the fear of betrayal and even death—none of these could derail a love that “just is—like the love of a child, a lover, a grandmother—the beginning and the end.” With Eduardo she went halfway around the world to fight for the independence of Mozambique from 500 years of domination by Portugal. White Shadow tells the story of her unsung role in a brutal ten-year war effort with all its victories and defeats, moments of despair and joy.