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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1323806/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "Today, Africa is looked at as a backward continent. This is wrong. We know Africa was well on its way towards a very prosperous civilisation path before the colonial interruption. The colonialists interrupted the African civilisation at a time when Africa was a thought-leader in the world. Today, people envy the Western civilisation. They ask themselves: How is it that the West are so brilliant? If we were true to history and asked the people who originated western civilisation, walked to the English and asked them who civilised them, yet they were known to be barbarians, they will tell you that they got all their knowledge from the Romans. When you walk to the Romans and ask them where they got their knowledge from, they will point you to the Greeks. The Greeks are said to be the fathers of modern civilisation and education. We talk about Socrates, Aristotle and Pythagoras and all those people who are said to be the fathers of education. If you ask the Greek where they got their knowledge from, they will tell you that the so-called fathers of knowledge came to the universities of Africa in Egypt, South Africa, Mali in West Africa and in the Kush Kingdom around the East African Region. There were universities. When they got the knowledge, books and artefacts, their culture was to burn down the African universities so that Africa had to start from scratch. They then came back with their knowledge, education, government and religion and put us well off our trajectory of civilisation."
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