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  1. I am an African! – Thabo Mbeki

    I am an African! – Thabo Mbeki

    On 8 May 1996, then deputy president Thabo Mbeki made a speech to the people of Africa and the world on the occasion of the passing of the new Constitution of South Africa. The speech tells of President Mbeki’s belief in the capacity of all people from Africa. “Friends, on...

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  2. Elegy For A Nation

    Elegy For A Nation

    A tribute to the late Prof. Chinua Achebe By WOLE SOYINKA AH, Chinua, are you grapevine wired? It sings: our nation is not dead, not clinically Yet. Now this may come as a surprise to you, It was to me. I thought the form I spied Beneath the frosted glass...

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