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Words of Wisdom

Publish date: 02 March 2026
Issue Number: 1166
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: general

‘These divisions, which the colonial powers have always exploited the better to dominate us, have played an important role –   and are still playing that role –  in the suicide of Africa’. 

Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in his 1959 African Unity and National Independence speech

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