Cotton Capital: Searching for the spirit of Pan-Africanism – bonus episode

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  This is The Guardian.

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  Hi, it's Nasheen here.

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  Today we're bringing you a bonus episode.

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  It's an update from our Cotton Capital series,

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  one where we explore The Guardian's links to transatlantic enslavement and the legacy still with us today.

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  This episode is all about Pan-Africanism and where they're living through a Pan-African moment.

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  I hope you enjoy it.

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  Today in Focus will be back on Monday.

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  And now, oh, what wonderful line.

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  At this moment, how wonderful Mr.

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  Churchill has come out onto the Ministry of Health balcony.

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  Victory of the cause of freedom is everything.

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  41 days ago, the Second World War ended.

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  Winston Churchill called for all citizens to do the utmost to rebuild,

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  to ensure that each countryman has a chance moving forward.

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  It's October 1945 and Jamaican activist Amy Ashwood Garvey, portrayed here in the play Liberation,

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  is giving a speech to a packed smoke-filled room in Manchester in the northwest of England.

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  These words were transmitted throughout the colonies.

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  I listened and wondered to whom he was referring as his countrymen and what he was advocating we rebuild.

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  Ashwood Garvey is addressing the Fifth Pan-African Congress,

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