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I have worked to build many bridges between the West and the Third World... But in this field of communications, a corner stone of our hopes for world peace, I am afraid that what exists is not a bridge. It is a wall.

SPEECH AT THE 30TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE - 1981-03-02

Posted March 24th, 2010 by heritage
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Your Excellencies, Mr Irani, Mr Galliner, Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen

I have rarely spoken publicly in the developing world or in the industrialised world, or indeed in any international forum about the Press. I wish to take this exceptional occasion to pay a deep personal gratitude to a truly remarkable African who was himself at one time a journalist, then who led his country's struggle for independence and who finally became the first President of Kenya, and an outstanding African statesman. I refer to Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.

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