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Wind of Change speech
The Wind of Change speech was an address delivered by the British prime minister Harold Macmillan to the parliament of South Africa in Cape Town in 1960. He acknowledged the strength of African national consciousness and signalled that Britain would not resist decolonisation. Accounts of the British Empire treat it as a marker of the rapid dismantling of the empire in Africa.
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