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    "id": 671628,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, schools have acronyms nowadays. Alliance Boys High School is widely referred to as ‘Bush.’ Lenana School where I was is referred to as ‘Changes.’ Nairobi School is referred to as “Patch.’ We definitely share different generations of life. That said and done, I wish the students well as they progress. But to the Pan- African University, there was a lot of zeal towards Pan-Africanism in this continent. There were intellectuals who powered the academic and political spheres of Africa through learning, debate and critique. Great African leaders were public intellectuals who ended up being people who took charge of governments and wrote volumes in terms of informing earlier African states. There is almost a death in critical thinking and learning in Africa. Look at the kind of public servants that we appoint and public leaders that we elect. If you look at their ideological foundation, it is literally absent. We have a crisis in this country because of the crisis of public intellectuals like you. We no longer interface with the political sphere. We no longer write critically or read published journals. You have such an important vacuum to fill, because Africa cannot just run on remote control."
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