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The year 1989? It seems so far away now, another country. In fact, for me, 1989 was another country. I was living in exile. One of my abiding memories from that year is of a dingy room somewhere in the run-down center of Lusaka, the Zambian capital. Half a dozen of us, "third-layer leadership" as we thought of ourselves, had been assembled by the African National Congress (ANC) president, the late Oliver Tambo. Tambo was convinced that negotiations between the apartheid regime and the ANC were not far off. I was among those who were skeptical. As we listened, half in excitement and half in disbelief, Tambo told us the (possibly apocryphal) story of the Zimbabwean independence negotiations a decade earlier. The leaders of the two liberation movements in that country were summoned one day, out of the blue, by the presidents of Zambia and Mozambique, countries that were hosting their movements. They were given airplane tickets to London and were told to leave at once, and not to return unless they had settled matters with the white minority regime.
Approximate Word count = 703
Approximate Pages = 2.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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