Summary
Question marks hang over many of Africa's best-known, oft-cited quotations, although Kenyan writers tell me there is no doubt that the nation's founding father, Jomo Kenyatta, told white settlers after the horrors of the Mau Mau emergency that his countrymen would "forgive, but not forget", demonstrating a pragmatism that has been Kenya's hallmark ever since. [...] an Eritrean academic says he has never been able to track down the origins of an infamous remark, universally attributed to the US secretary of state John Foster Dulles, who supposedly admitted in 1952 that while the Eritrean people had every right to decide their own future, his country's "strategic interests" made it necessary for the former Italian colony to be amalgamated with Ethiopia.
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The Famous Things They Never Said
I recently received a message from a radio reporter researching a piece on Patrice Lumumba, the first elected prime minister of the Congo. Could I help her track down a famous quote? The occasion was Independence Da...
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