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“Indeed, an illiterate man cannot be truly free; he is a slave to other people's thought and understanding.”

Source: Broadcast address on the second anniversary of Uhuru, 12 December 1965, p. 3; text issued by the Office of the President, Nairobi, 9 December 1965

Context The broadcast marked two years of independence and set out a national literacy campaign alongside the launch of Kenya's first social security fund.

Jomo KenyattaKenya · 1897–1978

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