In this speech Du Bois refutes the idea that Communism is the chief cause and threat of war by discussing imperialism in Africa in the late nineteenth century. He lists the causes of war in Africa as "greed, cupidity, avarice; ruthless desire for private gain at any cost to public welfare." He focuses his history on the lives of four political leaders: Cecil Rhodes, Paul Kruger, Lobengula, and Muhammad Ali Basha. He warns that modern wars will be connected to the recent past, and that wars for national liberation from British and American imperialism are inevitable.
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