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The cry of the African is none other than the cry of the unfortunate that rises up the moment that western nations loosen their hold on the rope which strangles Africa.

— Jean-Marc Ela

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The paradigm of bankruptcy has become the context for every analysis of modern Africa’s economic and social history, with the stress on the blind alleys of what is conventionally termed development.

If Christianity seeks to be anything more than an effort to swindle a mass of mystified blacks, the churches of Africa must all join to come to terms with this question.

Then from our cross to his cross rises one and the same clamor, "Eli! Eli! Lema Sabachthani?" (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)

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