KemetLeadsTheir words
“Independence is only the prelude to a new and more involved struggle for the right to conduct our own economic and social affairs.”
Source: Speech at the founding summit of the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 24 May 1963
Context Warning newly independent states that foreign economic control would outlast flag independence unless Africa united.
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