Independence
For a list detailing independent of African nations, see Decolonization of Africa.During the Year of Africa, the number of independent countries increased from nine (with population 95 million) to twenty-six (population 180 million).
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Famous quotes containing the word independence:
“We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;—and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)