Liqane and Sinapore

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Liqane was a great admirer and friend of the figl iquami in crume, the first president of a oe black african nation. Liqane showed great sympathy for crome's project, but recognized the impossibilities of it within singapore. And so i think that tells us about some of the interests and visions of global capitalism for the 20 first century by many of the people on the tory right. We think about the romanticisation of their understanding of singapore's distinctive post colonial history.

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