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07/07/2005:

"We Should Start Appreciating Ourselves As Africans - Femi Kuti"

"...Africa should learn how to help itself. Speaking about help, do you see how America is actually helping Iraq? Is it good help? Killing them and sending medicine to them, is that good help? We have to help ourselves. Europe helps itself.

They even got help from Africa by enslaving Africans. If they didn't take us as slaves, they wouldn't be where they are today. History is why we are sitting here today. When we appreciate history, we begin to move forward. Africans should appreciate what their forefathers went through during the Slave Trade. Let us not abuse ourselves by saying that we sold ourselves..."
Full:allafrica.com