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Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules.

Foreign debt, Sankara argued, functions as a modern form of colonization, controlling a nation's development from the outside.

Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso

Source: Thomas Sankara, address to the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 29 July 1987, excerpted in Thomas Sankara Speaks (Pathfinder Press, 1988)

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