KemetLeadsTheir words
“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.
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