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One biographer (a European) had this to say of Shaka

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During the colonial epoch, the British forced Africans to sing,

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Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

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One South African saying put forward that the white man has no kin, his kin is money.

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In the epoch of imperialism, the bankers became the aristocrats of the capitalist world

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

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For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

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Imperialism is essentially an economic phenomenon, and it does not necessarily lead to direct political control or colonization.

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The abandonment of traditional iron smelting in most parts of Africa is probably the most important instance of technological regression.

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Europeans were anxious to acquire gold in Africa because there was a pressing need for gold coin within the growing capitalist money economy.

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Because the scientific basis and experimental preconditions were lacking in Zulu society, Shaka could not have devised a firearm—no matter how much genius he possessed.

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A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.

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It is absolutely necessary to determine whether the standard of living in a given industrialized country is a product of its own internal resources or whether it stems from exploiting other countries.

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