Jeremy Harding
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who gave advice, Congolese scholars and Belgian Congolese scholars, on how this decolonization ought to go about, who were left very embittered by the fact that they didn't feel it had gone nearly far enough.
To be fair to the museum, it's not finished yet, but I do think that that's got the marks of success.
I wouldn't really like to tell you about the ones I think have not done this.
And when I say decolonization, I mean literally the moment when the flag, the colonial flag comes down and the independence flag goes up.
So you've got this gap between that moment in the mid-60s when a lot of the continent is technically independent, even nominally independent,
and that moment in 1975 when the Portuguese Umpire collapses.
And there's still a lot of anti-colonial activity going on, particularly in the Portuguese colonies.
You know, there are armed struggles.
We didn't hear so much about them at the time.
But in 1975, as Kevin says, the whole struggle seems to begin again in Southern Africa.
Not only does the Portuguese flag go down, but...
But for Angola and Mozambique, less so for Guinea-Bissau, who actually got its independence just ahead of the game in 74 from Portugal.
The position is right.
We are committed to the end of white minority rule in Rhodesia, in South Africa, and in the South African occupation of Namibia.
So we are going to invite...
our friends and comrades in from South Africa and from Namibia and from Rhodesia, which has already been under the gun since it refused to end minority rule in the 60s.
And you've suddenly got these two countries, Angola and Mozambique, which are full of ANC officers and SWAPO officers for the Namibians.
And on occasion, you know, Mugabe's people fighting for independence.
And the next thing that happens is that the South Africans hammer them.
They hammer them, you know, and they offer resistance.
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