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01/12/2005:

"Africa Social Forum"

"The story of the poor goes round and round. But what about the story
of the rich? The story not being told is that of the beneficiaries of
slavery and colonialism. The story of exploitation that put us into
this dispensation, commodified our own life for profit. They divided
and ruled. Can we unite and live? Can we unite for the world that
will be our world? Let us rise up and begin to tell this story* of why
they continue to be rich, continue to plunder." -- Wahu Kaara, Kenyan
feminist activist speaking at the ASF opening plenary

At the opening plenary of the Africa Social Forum in Lusaka, Zambia
(10-14 December, 2004), delegates from across the continent gave
varied testimonies that coalesced around a single truth:
recolonisation is worse than slavery.

Full Article : zmag.org