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One of modern #Africa’s first nationalist leaders, Kenyatta was a great defender of Kenyan and African culture and wrote eloquently on the plight of Kenyans under colonial rule.⠀
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📷: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the President of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta and his wife Ngina Kenyatta, Kenya, 1972. Photo: William Lovelace/Hulton Archive.

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📷: Residents protest after ransacking a half-built makeshift coronavirus facility in Ivory Coast. Photo: Reuters.

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📷: Nigeria’s Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed and Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele speak with former IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Photo: AP

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Today in 1994, the Rwandan genocide began.⠀
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On 7 April 1994, members of the Presidential Guard, Rwandan Armed Forces and local Hutu militia groups set up roadblocks around #Kigali and began killing Tutsi and moderate Hutu politicians and civilians, as well as foreign peacekeepers. The day before, on 6 April, President Juvenal #Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu, was assassinated.⠀
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Before the genocide, Rwanda had a long history of ethnic tensions that dated back to its colonial period. Today, Rwanda has two public holidays to mourn the genocide, and denial or historical revisionism of the genocide is a criminal offence.⠀
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📷: A Hutu man whose face was mutilated by the Hutu Interahamwe militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels. Photo: James Nachtwey Archive, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth.

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