Season of restoration-of-independence referendums across the globe begins this week: Kurdistan ... Catalonia ... Biafra ... African peoples in a stretch of anti-African “Berlin-states” or estates dotted across Africa …

(Sonny Rollins Trio, “The freedom suite” [personnel: Rollins, tenor saxophone; Oscar Pettiford, bass; Max Roach, drums; recorded: Riverside Records, New York, US, 7 March 1958) 

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