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Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!


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Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.



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Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.



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We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.



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As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.



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When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!



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Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.



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Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency.



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A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable



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None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.



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The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.





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