Albert Schweitzer
Peter Hancock writes about a remarkable Christian
In January 1965, as we were travelling by boat down the west coast of Africa, I put the antenna of my short wave radio out of the porthole and heard station after station celebrating Albert Schweitzer’s ninetieth birthday at his hospital at Lambarene in the West African territory of Gabon. At Cape Town we boarded the train to travel by rail across four countries to Malawi, where I was to teach physics to very bright African lads at a school in the Angoni Highlands on the edge of the Great Rift Valley.
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