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AFRICAN RENAISSANCE AND SPIRITUALITY Keynote Address at the Inter-disciplinary Conference of the Centre for African Renaissance Studies at Unisa Pretoria, 13 June 2005 Programme Director, Dr Ntshinga, Director of the Centre for African Renaissance Studies, Prof Gutto, colleagues, honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for the kind invitation to be your speaker tonight at the start of this conference. I consider it a great honour indeed to be here. I am happy too, for the opportunity to meet again an old friend from the Bahamas, Prof Hillary Beckles with whom I had had such