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World Service,20 Feb 2004,3 mins

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Professor and Kenyan Ali Mazrui talks about hearing the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's speech in Cape Town in 1960 about the wind of change across Africa. "The speech was carried on the World Service and for me, was a major experience, just listening to it and learning about he power of words."

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