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Event - 1966-11-25

Date: 
Friday, 1966, November 25
Location: 

Mowlana Hazar Imam called Third Conference of the Presidents of the World Ismailia Associations at Nairobi.

person_place_reference: 
H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV


Speech

LECTURE BY MOWLANA HAZAR IMAM EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT-1966-11-24

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The leaders of all African Countries today are faced with the need to raise the living standards of the mass of their peoples from mere subsistence level to a point where men and women can develop the full potential of their minds and bodies. The problem in Africa assumes urgent political dimensions if only because expectations are so much higher than they used to be. This is quite understandable when you remember the hopes that were raised during the battle for independence.

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