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I wanted to study the enemy on his home grounds.

— Joseph Kasa-Vubu

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Source: The new leaders of Africa Rolf Italiaander, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall 1690, p 147. Kasa-Vubu explains why in 1942 Leopoldville, he became a clerk at the Belgian financial administration.
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