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I want you to know the purpose of K.A.U. It is the biggest purpose the African has. It involves every African in Kenya and it is their mouthpiece, which asks for freedom. K.A.U. is you and you are the K.A.U. If we unite now, each and every one of us, and each tribe to another, we will cause the implementation in this country of that which the European calls democracy. True democracy has no colour distinction. It does not choose between black and white. We are here in this tremendous gathering under the K.A.U. flag to find which road leads us from darkness into democracy. In order to find it, we Africans must first achieve the right to elect our own representatives.
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- “Hymn to the Nile” Year: ca. 1990–1950 BCE
- Nebmare-nakht: A Scribal Schoolbook Year: ca. 1550–1069 BCE
- Herodotus: “On Libya” Year: ca. 450–420 BCE
- Aristotle: Constitution of Carthage Year: ca. 320s BCE
- Inscription of Ezana Year: ca. 350
- Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa Year: 1325–1354
- Nzinga Mbemba: Appeal to the King of Portugal Year: 1526
- Leo Africanus: The History and Description of Africa Year: 1526
- Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa Year: 1788
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Year: 1789
- Proposal for the Establishment of a Native Army Year: 1830
- Moshweshewe, Chief of the Basutos: Letter to Sir George Grey Year: 1858
- Constitution of the Fante Confederacy Year: 1871
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness Year: 1899
- Edmund Dene (E.D.) Morel: The Black Man’s Burden Year: 1920
- Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa Year: 1920
- A. B. Xuma: “Bridging the Gap between White and Black in South Africa”
- Jomo Kenyatta: “The Kenya Africa Union Is Not the Mau Mau” Year: 1952
- A. L. Geyer: “The Case for Apartheid” Year: 1953
- Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front Year: 1954
- Freedom Charter of South Africa Year: 1955
- Patrice Lumumba: Speech at the Proclamation of Congolese Independence Year: 1960
- Kwame Nkrumah: I Speak of Freedom Year: 1961
- Arusha Declaration Year: 1967
- Yoruba Praise Poem to Sango Year: ca. 1970
- Steve Biko: “Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity” Year: 1973
- Desmond Tutu: “The Question of South Africa” Year: 1984
- Nelson Mandela: “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom” Year: 1990
- Constitution of Rwanda Year: 1991
- Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address Year: 1994
- Wole Soyinka: “Towards a Sustainable Vision of Nigeria”a Year: 1996
- UN Human Rights Report on Zaire Year: 1996
- Constitutive Act of the African Union Year: 2000