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“From this moment and for ever, freed from all subjection and every fetter, master of your own destiny - dear Togo, my dear country, here you are free at last.”
Source: Discours proclamant l'independance du Togo, Lome, minuit, 27 avril 1960 (broadcast recording held by RFI; full French text reproduced in the Togolese press)
Context Spoken at midnight as Togo passed from United Nations trusteeship under French administration to independence, in a speech that opens with the sentry's reply that the night is long but day is coming.
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