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“The Africanists take the view that there is only one race to which we all belong, and that is the human race.”
Source: Opening address to the Africanist Inaugural Convention, Orlando, Johannesburg, 4 April 1959
Context Opening the convention that founded the Pan Africanist Congress after the Africanists broke from the ANC, he rejected multiracialism and argued that race had no scientific basis.
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