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World War Two and the Desecration of African Memory

From time to time, the black man reinforces the argument that he is the wiper of his own heritage, the chief orchestrator of his own dehumanization.

Olisa Eloka
Jul 30, 2019
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Africans fought in World War 2
Africans fought in World War 2

When the Nazis, in the cause of territorial expansion, invaded Poland and bombed Warsaw in September, 1939, the prompt declaration of war on the Third Reich by Britain and France must have come to many as unsurprising. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s assurance of “peace in our time” no longer counted. Hitler had broken…

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