You cannot have peace until everyone is equal."
"You can have peace and be enslaved. ".
Today, November 15, marks the 28th anniversary of Kwami Toure's death. We remember him with this clip from Peter Brooks' 1968 film Tell Me Lies, in which he asks us to think about what peace really means when people are still being exploited.
This question still arises. African countries fought for independence and won, but who gets to decide today? Foreign companies still control key parts of many African economies. The IMF and World Bank attach conditions to their loans, and foreign troops are still stationed in parts of the continent.
For Toure, liberation means that Africans have the power to decide what happens to our land, our resources and the wealth we create. For this he dedicated his life to the organization.