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Charting the changes in Africa from 1940 to 1990 - independence, colonialism, music, drama and key interviews. Extracts from Lord Frederick Lugard, former governor of Nigeria, Jomo Kenyatta, leader of Kenyan independence; Kwame Nkrumah, leader of Ghana; Ian Smith's declaration of independence of Rhodesia; Zimbabwe's independence; starvation in Biafra; animosity in South Africa; Julius Caesar in Swahili, Bob Marley, President Siaka Stevens of Sierra Leone, President Milton Obote in Uganda and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Picture: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Bush House, London, Credit: Getty Images
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