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01/07/2005:

"Mbeki slams Winston Churchill"

Jan 04, 2005

South African President Thabo Mbeki used a speech in the Sudanese National Assembly to attack writings of late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as demonstration of what colonial masters thought of Africans.

In a speech released on Monday — but delivered in the Sudanese national assembly on Saturday — Mbeki said Churchill wrote "the famous account of the colonising exploits of (Lord) Kitchener in Sudan in the book The River War". Churchill served under Kitchener who led the colonial army that defeated "the patriotic Mahdist forces at Omdurman in 1898 and occupied Khartoum".

Full Article : iafrica.com