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These men who were to lead us out of our despair,they came like man already grown fat and cynical with the eating of centuries of power they had never struggled for old before they had even been borninto power,and ready only for the grave.

— Ayi Kwei Armah The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

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