Every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work towards it's overthrow. - Walter Rodney

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Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be. " Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

Walter Rodney

Every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work towards it's overthrow.

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