Effects of colonialism on Africa’s past and present
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Address at AZAPO commemoration of Africa Liberation Day, Pimville Community Hall Soweto, 26 May 2012
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Motsoko Pheko
The challenge of Africa Liberation Day 2O12 is for this generation to reflect on their commitment to the vision of Pan-Africanist pioneers who worked so hard to bring Africans to where they are today.
Programme Director, Comrades, Brothers and Sisters,
The effects of colonialism past and present are visible all over Africa. It is not an overstatement when Edem Kodjo, author of ‘Africa Tomorrow’ describes the condition of African as “torn away from his past, propelled into a universe fashioned from outside that suppresses his values, and dumbfounded by a cultural invasion that marginalises him. The African,... is today the defor...