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most of the colonies in the world became independent,
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in a process that took decades,
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and of course the 1960s,
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particularly the beginning of the 1960s,
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is very, very crucial in the case of Africa.
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And this, despite the insistence of Winston Churchill,
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for one, that the British Empire would not be dismembered.
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In Britain this transition from colony to independent state stays
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often replete and full of problems, came without violence,
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came generally without insurrection.
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This was not the case with France nor,
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as you know, some of you,