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Exiled from her homeland, Rurh wrote important work on Africa – from a book on Libya to the best book on coup d’états on the continent – as well as a classic about being imprisoned (117 Days). ‘Politicians are men who compete with one another for power’, Ruth wrote in 1969, ‘not men who use power to confront their country’s problems’. She was assassinated in her office in Mozambique on August 17 by the South African police.

The archive of her writing is valuable at the link below:
http://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/

Ruth First Papers

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