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“The only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.”
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (London: Bogle-L’Ouverture, 1972), chapter 4, section on the Ama-Zulu
Context Discussing the rise of the Zulu state under Shaka, he contrasted what an African leader could build before colonial rule with what the same man could have done as a plantation slave.
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