Pulling out of the ICC would be tragic for Africa - Desmond Tutu

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Guv 12 years ago

THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
Kwaku 12 years ago

Now anytime an election is getting close if you are an African and you value your life just get some money and leave the continent,or run and go and hide in the bush.Ghanaians should be aware that JDM and NDC have also opted ...
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Now anytime an election is getting close if you are an African and you value your life just get some money and leave the continent,or run and go and hide in the bush.Ghanaians should be aware that JDM and NDC have also opted out of the ICC.
Yamba 12 years ago

I am surprised by Ghana' support for Kenya. Remember that the threat of ICC indictment saved Ghana from possible NPP-sponsored carnage.

I am surprised by Ghana' support for Kenya. Remember that the threat of ICC indictment saved Ghana from possible NPP-sponsored carnage.
KK 12 years ago

Kwasea guy
where from this stupidity of yours?
Aboa

Kwasea guy
where from this stupidity of yours?
Aboa
ot 12 years ago

what we are saying is they are witch hunting and is time Africans we manage \our own affair... enough is enough. Desmond tutu and co are played like chess cam.. the white play them and want them where they want them to be. Af ...
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what we are saying is they are witch hunting and is time Africans we manage \our own affair... enough is enough. Desmond tutu and co are played like chess cam.. the white play them and want them where they want them to be. Africa is time we pull out...we can manage our affairs.. let them go and chase the rebels in the congo forest. not wait untill the people come home for peace and u arrest them.
Kwaku 12 years ago

I wish you are a Kokomba/Dagomba leaving in Agbogboloshie market one day you will be chased by your political opponents from Bimbila to slash your throat free.The ICC is there to protect people like you and I.

I wish you are a Kokomba/Dagomba leaving in Agbogboloshie market one day you will be chased by your political opponents from Bimbila to slash your throat free.The ICC is there to protect people like you and I.
IBM 12 years ago

Great thought! That betrayal despond tutuba should shut up!!! It is unfortunate that he is referencing wars that have been created and catalyzed by the same west when he knows better. If ICC is for Africa, let's have it under ...
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Great thought! That betrayal despond tutuba should shut up!!! It is unfortunate that he is referencing wars that have been created and catalyzed by the same west when he knows better. If ICC is for Africa, let's have it under AU. Otherwise, somebody should tell the west to stop treating Africans like subclass.
"You can fool some people only some of the time."
We're fed up with their shit!!
Truth 12 years ago

Gbam!you said it!

Gbam!you said it!
Joe Pasasa 12 years ago

This is the idea of NDC Government and we will not allow this to happen.
At the recent OAU Meeting our lameduck president proposed that ICC suspend the trial of Kenyan President and deputy or suggested that Africa consider w ...
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This is the idea of NDC Government and we will not allow this to happen.
At the recent OAU Meeting our lameduck president proposed that ICC suspend the trial of Kenyan President and deputy or suggested that Africa consider withdrawing from the ICC.
Only a thief that will be scared of the ICC.
mr Tina 12 years ago

I am not surprise you even support gay marriage. You were paid to give gay speech and here you are again bribe by ICC.Using the word of God to decieve people.

I am not surprise you even support gay marriage. You were paid to give gay speech and here you are again bribe by ICC.Using the word of God to decieve people.
Yamba 12 years ago

You have lost the point. It is about prosecution of despots and not gays. Focus on the discussion please.

You have lost the point. It is about prosecution of despots and not gays. Focus on the discussion please.
Symbiosis - Proudly GH 12 years ago

Yamba, it is rather you who is lost in your ignorance. You are too narrow-minded for comfort.

What Tina is trying to expose is the criminal western hegemony (dictatorship) over Africa. Of course that is lost on you because ...
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Yamba, it is rather you who is lost in your ignorance. You are too narrow-minded for comfort.

What Tina is trying to expose is the criminal western hegemony (dictatorship) over Africa. Of course that is lost on you because you are a willing slave.

Go back to school.
Agyeman 12 years ago

Well said.They should prosecute Bush,Blair for Iraq and the two contenders for presidency when the kenya violence occured who were Kibaki and Odinga.

Well said.They should prosecute Bush,Blair for Iraq and the two contenders for presidency when the kenya violence occured who were Kibaki and Odinga.
DAN 12 years ago

so guess mr is a gay boy or girl! Assad will be next unless he gets killed by bomb!

so guess mr is a gay boy or girl! Assad will be next unless he gets killed by bomb!
Forthright 12 years ago

Who's interest are these selfish African leaders fighting for? They are only trying to protect themselves, so they can continue to visit mayhem on their people, and suffer no consequences.
And postponing the trial of these l ...
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Who's interest are these selfish African leaders fighting for? They are only trying to protect themselves, so they can continue to visit mayhem on their people, and suffer no consequences.
And postponing the trial of these leaders will make criminals seek power at all cost as a way of earning the deferral or completely avoiding trial at the ICC.
No way! We the people are not in agreement. Justice delayed is justice denied!
Dagabie 12 years ago

Some Africa Leaders are power drunk and wicked. They must be checked. No pull out from ICC.

Some Africa Leaders are power drunk and wicked. They must be checked. No pull out from ICC.
e akuteye 12 years ago

They are treating to pull out because of their greedy and wicked selfish and its the time all citizens of Africa must demonstrate against this evil leaders. Shame unto them they need to be send to icc.

They are treating to pull out because of their greedy and wicked selfish and its the time all citizens of Africa must demonstrate against this evil leaders. Shame unto them they need to be send to icc.
Nana Asare 12 years ago

I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH Desmond Tutu BECAUSE IF THE ICC CANNOT BRING George Bush FORMER PRESIDENT OF USA and Tony Blair OF TO JUSTICE, THEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAS QUIT THE ICC.

I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH Desmond Tutu BECAUSE IF THE ICC CANNOT BRING George Bush FORMER PRESIDENT OF USA and Tony Blair OF TO JUSTICE, THEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAS QUIT THE ICC.
Yamba 12 years ago

You are rigght about Bush and co. But does it mean that African leaders should terrorize their citizens and go free? Let us think about ourselves for a change.

You are rigght about Bush and co. But does it mean that African leaders should terrorize their citizens and go free? Let us think about ourselves for a change.
Symbiosis - Proudly GH 12 years ago

Africans have the right to manage or to mismanage their affairs in much the same way that Europe and other countries have a right to manage or to mismanage their affairs as they have been doing. But worse-still, they do not h ...
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Africans have the right to manage or to mismanage their affairs in much the same way that Europe and other countries have a right to manage or to mismanage their affairs as they have been doing. But worse-still, they do not have the right mismanage other peoples affairs for them by sponsoring coups d’état and rebels through weak characters like you Yamba, who is comfortable to be ordered around like a slave, to create havoc and mayhem in other peoples countries.

Bad African leaders are no worse than bad European and American leaders and if there are consequences to be paid for, then they should all suffer those consequences. But what do we see? Only African leaders are made to suffer those consequences to make it seem like Africans are exceptionally backward, stupid and evil people. Do you know the damaging effects of such erroneous impressions on Africa globally?

The difference is that whilst bad African leaders are usually puppets of European and American leaders doing their dirty work for them locally, European and American leaders are the stage-managers of these bad African leaders or the underlying cause of civil and political troubles that make Africans fight amongst themselves and/or prompt some African leaders to take drastic actions to instill sanity .

When the Nkrumah govt took the necessary steps to quell the terrorist activities of western sponsored assassins in the sixties, many western countries who had never introduced democracy and had been using worse tyrannical means to subjugate simple harmless natives in their colonies for over 200 years, pretended that this was unheard of. When the US introduced the hundred times worse draconian measures after the terrorist attack in 9/11, not only to cover America, but spread out to cover the whole world including Ghana, I have since not heard a single whisper of protest against it by people like Yamba and those who still continue to castigate Nkrumah for the establishment of the relatively harmless and mild PDA of the sixties in Ghana.

Has anybody heard of a single word of disapproval or the usual threats of trials at the ICC against the American sponsored Egyptian Army since they illegally took over from the democratically elected govt in Egypt, killing thousands of people in the process, from any of the American or European govts and media?

Not even any of those hypocritical two-faced international human rights NGOs or so-called Civil Society organizations have said a word of reproach against the illegal imprisonment of tens of thousands of Egyptians for rightfully demonstrating against the western military puppets for taking over their govt.

Narrow-minded people like you Yamba, who continuously and shamelessly allow themselves to be used by these Europeans and Americans to give Africa a bad name, should be ashamed of yourselves.

Without any doubt, the ICC has been created to replace the whip that was callously used against rebellious slaves and is just simply another western imperialist organization created to prolong the slavery, the colonization, the domination and the suffering of the people of Africa for the exclusive interests of the advancement of Europe and America.
Truth 12 years ago

You disappoint me here Uncle Tutu.
Please tell the ICC that we shall join them after they meter out the same judgement Charles Taylor got to Bush jr and Tony Blair.
No selective justice.

You disappoint me here Uncle Tutu.
Please tell the ICC that we shall join them after they meter out the same judgement Charles Taylor got to Bush jr and Tony Blair.
No selective justice.
CRUSADER 12 years ago

Uncle Tom Tutu,if this caliber of folks man is South Africa why wont the minority White oppress the native.Ok where is Bush and Tony Blair? IMFORMER

Uncle Tom Tutu,if this caliber of folks man is South Africa why wont the minority White oppress the native.Ok where is Bush and Tony Blair? IMFORMER
NON-ALIGNED 12 years ago

Desmond Tutu has spoken his mind......
Please allow me to ask him for some answers or if anyone else can give them to me...........

Why are certain African leaders brought to the ICC and others are not?

Is the ICC ther ...
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Desmond Tutu has spoken his mind......
Please allow me to ask him for some answers or if anyone else can give them to me...........

Why are certain African leaders brought to the ICC and others are not?

Is the ICC there for those who have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity? If so, Desmond, for the sake of fairness, why are you not asking the International community to indite Tony Blair and George Bush?

Is the ICC not interested in certain African leaders who have served more than their terms in office? Hence, staying in power by means of rigging elections after elections leading to indirect crimes against humanity? Is it a matter of being friendly with the West?

Desmond Tutu, even though I agree with you to some point, I would appreciate you do not pick and choose what to comment on but, to address the entire world and question them all..........

So that, there will be no excuse for African leaders to feel like they are the only ones in the world who commit crimes against humanity. I agree two wrongs don't make a right but, fairness and justice across board achieves PEACE!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
Uhuru 12 years ago

IT IS SAD FOR AFRICAN LEADERS TO PULL OUT OF ICC INSTEAD THEY SHOULD DECIDE TO BE GOOD LEADERS. IS A SHAME THIS YEAR NO AFRICAN LEADER WON MO'S AWARD FOR WHOPPING 5 MILLION US DOLLARS. THEY SHOULD REPENT

IT IS SAD FOR AFRICAN LEADERS TO PULL OUT OF ICC INSTEAD THEY SHOULD DECIDE TO BE GOOD LEADERS. IS A SHAME THIS YEAR NO AFRICAN LEADER WON MO'S AWARD FOR WHOPPING 5 MILLION US DOLLARS. THEY SHOULD REPENT
Son of Africa 12 years ago

Mr Desmond Tutu,there is no Country whose surfering in the Hands of opresive rulers is less or more than that of South Africa,who have you reported to the ICC from South Africa to be arested?Those evil souls are still enjoyin ...
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Mr Desmond Tutu,there is no Country whose surfering in the Hands of opresive rulers is less or more than that of South Africa,who have you reported to the ICC from South Africa to be arested?Those evil souls are still enjoying their loot and your black Brothers and sisters are still surfering in Soweto.Are you at peace with yourself becouse they"honoured" you with noble peasce Price? you have sold your Soul.All what we are after is, Africa taking care of it's own Problems without hypocrites interupting
Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 12 years ago

Dear DEsmond Tutu, can you explain to us why George Bush and Tony Blair are walking free? Why shouldn`t American citizens be put before this court?We demand justice for all and not selective justice!USA and the West flout int ...
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Dear DEsmond Tutu, can you explain to us why George Bush and Tony Blair are walking free? Why shouldn`t American citizens be put before this court?We demand justice for all and not selective justice!USA and the West flout international laws but nothing happens to their leaders!Have you forgotten what happened in Iraq? Where are the weapons of mass destruction, which led to the invation, killing thousands if not millions there and destroying the infrastructure?Aren`t thousands of innocent people being killed in Afghanistan?As long as the ICC practices selective justice,Africa must pull out!
OKOE 12 years ago

AFRICA MUST REMAIN IN THE ICC FOREVER. OUR PEOPLE NEED THE PROTECTION THE ICC PROVIDES AGAINST CRIMINALS AMONGST US. THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE TO TURN TO FOR JUSTICE PERIOD. AFRICA FORWARD EVER.

AFRICA MUST REMAIN IN THE ICC FOREVER. OUR PEOPLE NEED THE PROTECTION THE ICC PROVIDES AGAINST CRIMINALS AMONGST US. THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE TO TURN TO FOR JUSTICE PERIOD. AFRICA FORWARD EVER.
isaac 12 years ago

get george bush and tony blair then stay in icc

get george bush and tony blair then stay in icc
Agyaaku 12 years ago

African leaders, please do not listen to this gay-supporting man. Tutu has lost all that he fought for in South Africa and he is no more the voice of the oppressed. How many Europeans and Americans have been hauled before thi ...
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African leaders, please do not listen to this gay-supporting man. Tutu has lost all that he fought for in South Africa and he is no more the voice of the oppressed. How many Europeans and Americans have been hauled before this ICC. We have our own way of resolving our problems. TAKE AFRICA OUT OF ICC
Abongoman 12 years ago

Did The Bishop asked for those racist south african whites to be prosecuted for all the crime they committed against blacks? charity begins at home Mr. Bishop. Ask yourself who provide all those guns to rebels ... while th ...
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Did The Bishop asked for those racist south african whites to be prosecuted for all the crime they committed against blacks? charity begins at home Mr. Bishop. Ask yourself who provide all those guns to rebels ... while the whites loot our resources. Please wate up to the true realization of what is actually taking place around the globe.
RastafaraI 12 years ago

Ghana should petition the ICC about the atrocities that occurred in Ghana under Rawlings...Ghanaians court cannot adjudicate those crimes because of the indemnity clause

Ghana should petition the ICC about the atrocities that occurred in Ghana under Rawlings...Ghanaians court cannot adjudicate those crimes because of the indemnity clause
TAMBRO 12 years ago

I want archbishop tutu to answer this tothe Whole World.Why is it that the US WHO is known to the World as advocating for democracy imune to ICC prosecution ?Is the US also seeking for a licence to kill?Have you ever seen any ...
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I want archbishop tutu to answer this tothe Whole World.Why is it that the US WHO is known to the World as advocating for democracy imune to ICC prosecution ?Is the US also seeking for a licence to kill?Have you ever seen any non African sitting president been tried at the ICC?Lets respect The African continent equally.Am Again challenging the archbishop to advocate for the ICC's indictment and trial of all those White leaders and Isralites involved in the commitment of crimes against humanity in the South Africa apartheid era and the current apartheid against the palistinians and breaking international Laws without anybody saying nothing.
Onipa Bone 12 years ago

Mr Tutu you are right. But what you must add is justice must be dispensed equally without fear, favour or colour! If Charles Taylor is guilty for providing logistical support for the RUF, what about other leaders who have pro ...
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Mr Tutu you are right. But what you must add is justice must be dispensed equally without fear, favour or colour! If Charles Taylor is guilty for providing logistical support for the RUF, what about other leaders who have provided logistical support for chaos elsewhere in the world? And with Taylor now to serve in the UK is obviously a death sentence which the ICC very well knows.
GHANABA 12 years ago

Shame on all African leaders who blindly support the present criminal leaders of Kenya who led the bloodshed that killed thousands and led to thousands in Kenyans still leaving in refugee camps.

Shame on all African leaders who blindly support the present criminal leaders of Kenya who led the bloodshed that killed thousands and led to thousands in Kenyans still leaving in refugee camps.
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 12 years ago

Desmond Tutu is a puppet of the western world and all that it stands for.Through his discredited Truth Reconciliation Committee he denied black Africans in South Africa who suffered persecution and indignities in their own la ...
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Desmond Tutu is a puppet of the western world and all that it stands for.Through his discredited Truth Reconciliation Committee he denied black Africans in South Africa who suffered persecution and indignities in their own land under the white apartheid regime the justice that they deserved.No wonder the western world has showered him with awards including the Nobel Peace Prize.Recently he sided with the West's attempt to impose homosexual and gay culture by stating emphatically that opposing that culture amounts to being homophobic.What credibility has he got left to lecture African leaders on what to do in relation to the ICC,an organization which has targeted only African leaders and left white leaders guilty of crimes against humanity free.Desmond Tutu will serve the African continent better by telling the ICC to stop being racially bias towards Africans.African leaders guilty of crimes against humanity should not escape punishment and so must white leaders guilty of crimes against humanity.Right now Africans are the easiest target for persecution by the ICC.
OH! LORD BLOCK THIS MOVE! 12 years ago

YES I SUPPORT DESMOND TUTU.

YES I SUPPORT DESMOND TUTU.
HABLUTA SENYO 12 years ago

WHO SUPPLIED THE GUNS AND ORTHER MILITARY EQUIPMENT.AFRICA LEADERS
SHOUT CLOSE DOOR TO ICC PERIOD

WHO SUPPLIED THE GUNS AND ORTHER MILITARY EQUIPMENT.AFRICA LEADERS
SHOUT CLOSE DOOR TO ICC PERIOD
KOJO 12 years ago

GOD BLESS YOU DESMOND TUTU FOR YOUR BRAVERY AND TRUTH

GOD BLESS YOU DESMOND TUTU FOR YOUR BRAVERY AND TRUTH
Osei Yao 12 years ago

ICC was made to make Africans feel inferior. Bush and Blair are walking criminals fo invading Afganistan without UN mandate. Yet they are freeman. There nust be some wasy Africans can run their affairs without copying the wes ...
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ICC was made to make Africans feel inferior. Bush and Blair are walking criminals fo invading Afganistan without UN mandate. Yet they are freeman. There nust be some wasy Africans can run their affairs without copying the western "winner takes all" election crap?
Naijaman 12 years ago

If Tutu had lived in the Old South of the USA in the days of slavery, he would have been a Submissive Cotton Picker.

If Tutu had lived in the Old South of the USA in the days of slavery, he would have been a Submissive Cotton Picker.
Naijaman 12 years ago

Why is the USA and most of the Western countries not members of the ICC?

Why is the USA and most of the Western countries not members of the ICC?
isaac 12 years ago

i think it is the right thing . what africans need is our own court to try our leaders. ICC has failed to lived up to expectation. we have seen what some african leaders did but did not get any trails, and we have seen what h ...
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i think it is the right thing . what africans need is our own court to try our leaders. ICC has failed to lived up to expectation. we have seen what some african leaders did but did not get any trails, and we have seen what happened in south africa during the apparteid, no one was tried, we have seen what george bush, tony blair, donald ramsfeld and dick cheney did in Iraq, john bolton, and fredrick de clark in south africa. how many of them have been tried?
Jambo 12 years ago

I do sing from the same hymn sheet with Rev. Desmond Tutu that backing out of the ICC is a dangerous move for Africa.All well thinking people should realize that those proposing the backing out want to do so to satisfy their ...
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I do sing from the same hymn sheet with Rev. Desmond Tutu that backing out of the ICC is a dangerous move for Africa.All well thinking people should realize that those proposing the backing out want to do so to satisfy their own personal aggrandizement not thinking about the common good of the people they govern.Did the whole world not condemn the atrocities and massacre of innocent people that took place in Kenya because the desire of Uhuru Kenya Atta and his cohorts to get power at all cost? It is strange for the African Union to support the selfish and parochial interest of Uhuru which will eventually lead the continent into armagedon. Uhuru was indicted before going to the Polls to contest for the highest position in the land of Kenya.In fact prior to the elections,he was on record to have said he would stand trial even he if become the President. This was in answer to a fellow contestant Rally Oginga,s suggestion that Kenyans should not vote for a man being hunted by the ICC for his involvement in the barbaric murder of political opponents. He has won the highest office of the land and if he has nothing to hide,he must go to the Hague to defend himself.Is he special than all the people who had been tried by the ICC.To argue that no sitting president has ever been tried by the court is a very infantile and bogus argument ever made.Is he and his supporters in the African usurping the powers of the court? What locus standi do they have to order the way the ICC should transact its business?I suggest that Uhuru should be forcibly arrested if he treats his invitation to the Hague with contempt.We should not condone with illegality.Uhuru should remember that the evil that men do live after them.Obviously he can choose to run but he cannot hide!
John 12 years ago

I agree with the Archbishop. African leaders commit disproportionate violations of the rights of the citizens. Without the ICC to hold them accountable, the citizens are in jeopardy. A case in point is Equatorial Guinea. I pr ...
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I agree with the Archbishop. African leaders commit disproportionate violations of the rights of the citizens. Without the ICC to hold them accountable, the citizens are in jeopardy. A case in point is Equatorial Guinea. I propose African leaders should also be indicted for gross mismanagement of the economies of their countries through gross negligence such as massive corruption at the highest levels. After all, when they steal from their countries, they find safe haven in the advanced countries. If they prosecuted for economic offenses, they will stop stealing on massive scales.
Symbiosis - Proudly GH 12 years ago

You are a very naive and uneducated person. Make a search of the statistics of prison populations of Europe and America and see how minorities such as blacks far outnumber the overwhelmingly large white populations.

Do an ...
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You are a very naive and uneducated person. Make a search of the statistics of prison populations of Europe and America and see how minorities such as blacks far outnumber the overwhelmingly large white populations.

Do another research on the economic status of black people in those same areas of the world and see how the same groups of minorities 'for some strange reasons', have been abandoned in the hopeless slums of what are deemed to be the richest and most civilized countries in the world.

After that come back again on this platform and spew out the same nonsense, if you have the courage.
kaketonti 12 years ago

No doubt Desmond Tutu has questions to answer when he meets our forefathers.Till criminal Europeans and Euro-Americans are brought to book,ICC is meaningless.CLAIM AZANIA AS THE NAME FOR YOUR COUNTRY.Let AFRICA decide it's fa ...
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No doubt Desmond Tutu has questions to answer when he meets our forefathers.Till criminal Europeans and Euro-Americans are brought to book,ICC is meaningless.CLAIM AZANIA AS THE NAME FOR YOUR COUNTRY.Let AFRICA decide it's fate.Enemy of social progress.
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