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Soweto
16 Jun 1976 — Schoolchildren protesting compulsory Afrikaans are met with police bullets; the image of dying Hector Pieterson circles the globe. Hundreds die as the revolt spreads. A generation is radicalized. Remember them.
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — Apartheid’s Long Fall in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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