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His people may be murdered, their farms stolen, their children

facing starvation, but the Western powers content themselves with the wittering banalities of summit communiques. The same apathy is detectable in our entire policy towards Africa.

Europeans and Americans alike spend many billions of pounds of taxpayers' money every year to dump our farm produce in Africa, so demolishing local production. When you consider that 70 per cent of African employment is in farming, compared with less than 2 per cent in this country, one can see the evil of this policy. What can we

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