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As a Muslim, one of seven hundred million, I live in daily astonishment about the incomprehension of Islam and its peoples. Some western media have perpetuated misconceptions which stick like shrouds to the bones of historical skeletons, but in most civilizations the dead are buried.
SPEECH AT THE 30TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE - 1981-03-02
Posted March 24th, 2010 by heritage
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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