Africa/USA: Afro-Americans Struggle Inspired African Nationalists, says Chissano

Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano said in Baton Rouge, in the USA state of Louisiana, that the struggle of slave descendants and others for their political and civic rights inspired many nationalists in Africa who, between the 1950s and 1990s, were fighting to decolonise their countries and eradicate racial discrimination. Chissano was invited to the university to be awarded the degree of "Doctor Honoris Causa", in acknowledgement of his role in the fight against colonialism and racism.