REBIRTH OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATION

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pressions This style seems quite proper for this chapter but not for

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chapters dealing with economic problems

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theories education

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Chapter XIII we chose address the young people
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craftmanship restrict too much we tend

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canons and standards

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override and what we want say the way we want to

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the work secure for this kind

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but feeling that we owed

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involved also was sense mission

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debt paid some way we mortgaged

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Africa that had

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our home and then borrowed money from every friend and relative
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who would trust

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that the wholehearted Africans which we refer below

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assistance
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made the completion possible

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the work
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