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“So let us all agree to die a little, or even completely, so that the peoples still under colonial domination may be freed and African unity may not be a vain word.”
Source: Address to the founding summit of the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 24 May 1963; African Union, 'African Union Founders' collection of the summit speeches, pp. 14-15
Context Algeria had been independent for ten months when its leader spoke at the founding summit, urging the assembled states to support liberation movements in Angola, Mozambique and South Africa with more than words.
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