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A people without historical memory is a people without dignity.

— Joseph Ki-Zerbo

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History is not a luxury for Africa; it is a necessity.

Africa must refuse to be merely a consumer of the world's ideas; it must become a producer of knowledge.

Democracy cannot survive where citizens are excluded from knowledge.

Culture is the root from which every authentic development grows.

On ne développe pas, on se développe.

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Saki Reginald (1904)

Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.

Colin Wilson The Philosopher's Stone (1969)

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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