This is The Guardian.

Hi, it's Nishine here.

Today we're bringing you a bonus episode.

It's an update from our Cotton Capital series, one where we explore the Guardian's links to

transatlantic enslavement and the legacy is still with us today.

This episode is all about Pan-Africanism

and whether we're living through a Pan-African moment.

I hope you enjoy it.

Today and focus will be back on Monday.

And now, oh, what wonderful luck.

At this moment, how wonderful Mr. Churchill

has come out onto the Ministry of Health balcony.

Victory of the cause of freedom is every day.

41 days ago, the Second World War ended.

Winston Churchill called for all citizens to do the utmost to rebuild, to ensure that each countryman has a chance moving forward.

It's October 1945 and Jamaican activist Amy Ashwood Garvey portrayed here in the play Liberation

is giving a speech to a packed smoke-filled room in Manchester in the northwest of England.

These words were transmitted throughout the colonies.

I listened and wondered to whom he was referring as his countrymen.

And what he was advocating, we rebuild.

Ashwood Garvey is addressing the fifth Pan-African Congress,

an iconic gathering of future African leaders and international activists.

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