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The demand that an Africa for Africans shall replace the present barbarous scramble for exploitation by individual states comes from singularly different sources.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Editor's note · Context
Du Bois emphasizes the need for African self-determination in the face of colonial exploitation.
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