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Texts the dominant story under-stocked. Filterable by region, era, and theme. Public-domain works are reproduced in full; in-copyright works are excerpted with source links.
Thomas Sankara, 1984
Sankara's October 4, 1984 address to the U.N. General Assembly, given two months after he renamed Upper Volta to Burkina Faso (Land of Upright People). A young president…
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1986
From the title essay of Decolonising the Mind. Ngũgĩ argues that the choice of language for the African writer is not a stylistic matter but a political one — that to wr…
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