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In the third world.. which at long last achieved liberation from the indignity and exploitation of colonial rule.. Respected leaders.. instead of bending every effort to helping their peoples escape from poverty and illiteracy, have spent desperately precious resources on useless prestige projects; palaces, superhighways, independent and uneconomic airlines.. and outsized armouries. (15:6) "...There's nothing but a fancy-dress parade and the blare of the trumpets. There's nothing save a minimum of readaption, a few reforms at the top, a flag waving: and down there at the bottom an undivided mass, still living in the middle ages, endlessly marking time." (Franz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth)
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