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“Despite the huge organization created to perpetuate the slavery of the black man, the whites of Europe could not extinguish the flame of freedom and dignity in black Africa.”

Source: Address to the UN General Assembly, New York, 4 October 1973 (UN translation from French)

Context Addressing the General Assembly, he recounted colonial rule in Africa before denouncing continued Portuguese colonialism, white-minority Rhodesia and South Africa.

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Mobutu Sese SekoDR Congo · 1930–1997
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