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“Zo kwe zo — every human being is a person.”

Source: Guiding principle of MESAN, the party he founded in Bangui on 28 September 1949

Context The Sango maxim was the founding creed of the movement he launched in colonial Ubangi-Shari to assert the equal humanity of Africans against colonial racial discrimination.

Barthélemy BogandaCentral African Republic · 1910–1959

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