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    "id": 1237617,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to congratulate the Hon. Member for bringing this Report to the House. The Pan-African Parliament was a great mind and great thinking by the leaders who envisaged that we should have an African bloc in place to make resolutions that empower African independent states. This is especially when negotiating at the international front, making a push to realise any benefit and defending the rights both economic and social or other forms of rights of the people. The Pan African Parliament must be closely related to the history of Pan-Africanism which had the leaders who fought for African independence like Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta and others as founder members. This movement has a very long history emanating from the black Americans living in America like W.E.B. Du Bois and many others who fronted the idea that Africa must be a proud nation with proud countries and independent minds pushing their policy independently without influence of the Europeans. At that time, they were also inspired by the euro-centric scholars who had defined Africa as the dark continent. The other day I saw a Member of Parliament speaking about this. There was a historian by the name William Trevor Rooper who when asked whether there was anything in Africa he said: ‘there is nothing in Africa’. This is because for him it was just darkness. So, when the first Pan-Africanists came up within the continent, their first business was to establish the independence of African states, which they did. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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