Mr Mugabe has railed against the country's judiciary as a racist vestige of British colonialism.

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And English has become, thanks to the combination of British colonialism and American commercialism, a global tongue.

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The issue of race, the issue of colonialism that you mentioned earlier to Constance, remember that large parts of the Arab world were under either French colonialism or British colonialism.

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