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“Each time a country seizes its independence through revolution, that independence does not rest on traditional and customary foundations.”
Source: Speech to the revolutionary army, Vwadju, Ngazidja, 2 February 1976, trans. Michel Lafon (1995), pp. 28–29
Context Six months after the August 1975 coup that brought him to power, addressing soldiers as his government moved to dismantle customary hierarchies in the Comoros.
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