CBS Radio’s Benji Cole interviews Jacques R. Roy, the author of “Don’t Quit – Don’t Cry: …After 25,000 Weekends”
Jacques R. Roy, the author of “Don’t Quit – Don’t Cry: …After 25,000 Weekends,” was interviewed by CBS Radio’s Benji Cole. The interview is about the discussion of the message of the book as well as the author’s purpose for writing this masterpiece.
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The author of “Don’t Quit – Don’t Cry: …After 25,000 Weekends,” Jacques R. Roy, is the second-born in a French-Canadian family from Kirkland Lake, Ontario. His lifelong passion for justice and authentic independence for the former colonies of southern Africa, particularly his “adopted country,” Angola, has kept him actively engaged in Canada and abroad.
He is an accomplished carpenter, furniture designer and fabricator, gardener, ESL/FSL teacher, energy consultant, journalist, professional speaker, and a Rotarian. Jacques still hopes the world will catch up to his whirlwind efforts. He continues to put into practice the words of his friend Dr. Neto, “Solve the problem.”
The author received his diploma from the Northern Ontario Institute of Technology in 1965; he worked as a plant engineer for Bell Telephone in Montreal in the same year. He went to Tanzania as a volunteer with CUSO at the Institute of Technology and to Montreal for language training in Kiswahili and African Affairs and Culture.
Arriving in Dar es Salaam on August 25, 1967, he began to teach. He was inducted into FAPLA on September 15, 1967, after meeting Dr. Neto, Head of the Angola Resistance MPLA. Dr. Neto needed radio communications for the war zones. On October 1st, 1967, Dr. Neto received the plans and budget and was forewarned against returning to the office due to the threat of assassination.
“Don’t Quit – Don’t Cry: …After 25,000 Weekends” is the compelling life tale of a Canadian. This insightful masterpiece is dedicated to the orphans of the Angola liberation struggle and to the peasants in war-torn Angola who guided the liberation forces with food, a celestial view, knowledge of the terrain, and hope. To the MPLA, who extended an invitation to participate in the liberation struggle and to experience the political depth of changing reality. To the ANC in opening the unknown world of intelligence gathering.
Get to know more about the author and his book as you listen to the full interview below: