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The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

by Martin Meredith

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“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
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― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

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