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But what has the colour of one’s skin to do with faith? ‘Man is just like a sword, whose sheath represents the pigmentation of his skin; but the sharp edge of the steel blade symbolizes moral values that count much more!’ he thought.

In a continent where the heat in certain regions reaches 40 [degrees] in the shade, should our African ‘emancipation’ consist of the three-piece all-wool suit and the bottle of scotch? Should it not rather have its source in our own deep roots in that distant past, and, at the same time, in the opening-up of our new frontiers to universal values?