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“A nation without a past is a lost nation, and a people without a past is a people without a soul.”
Source: Graduation address, University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, 15 May 1970
Context Four years after independence, he urged graduates to write their own history books and prove that Africa's past was as worth studying as any other, against colonial claims to the contrary.
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