African Freedom Fighters

African Freedom Fighters

L-R:Cde Kenneth Kaunda from Zambia.

Samora Machel   from  Mozambique

Mwalimu Julius Nyerere  from Tanzania

The above Ancestors of Freedom among others cofounded defunct OAU now AU with main purpose of unifying Africa.

~UOE

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