Ds democratise, decolonise, develop promised to make this military coup different from others.

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"More than that, the essential message from the president was the need to decolonise the African mind, post-liberation, to enable the previously oppressed African majority to appreciate and love who they are and uphold their own culture, " he said.

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There can be no stability and prosperity in the Russian empire, now called the Russian Federation, until Russia's government honestly and unequivocally decides finally to decolonise and allows plebiscites to determine which autonomous republics or regions want to remain part of the Russian Federation, and which would rather say goodbye.

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