Every speech that freed Africa, in one feed. From Haile Selassie at the League of Nations (1936) to the fall of apartheid. Read aloud, free, in English, French, and Portuguese.
"Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa." Kwame Nkrumah, Accra, 1957. These are the words that ended empires. We read them aloud so they are never forgotten.
Mandela's speeches are public domain under South African law, which denies copyright in speeches of a political nature (Copyright Act s12(8)(a)). Other items are under legal review: several African states exempt political speeches from copyright, and we publish each speech only after its public-domain basis is confirmed. We name the basis for every item. If you are a scholar or archivist who can help verify a text, write to us through the YouTube channel.
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Mandela's speeches are public domain under South Africa's Copyright Act s12(8)(a), which explicitly denies copyright in political speeches. Other speeches are individually verified before publication; we publish nothing until its public-domain basis is confirmed and we state the basis on each entry.
Africa's independence was won in many languages. Lumumba spoke in French, Cabral and Machel in Portuguese. We read each speech in its original language and provide summaries so nothing is lost.
Yes. Print them, play them, assign them. Each comes with a free independence brief with historical context and discussion questions.
Others summarize or dramatize. We read the actual primary source texts aloud, complete and unabridged, in one free feed.