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'''Ruth First''' (4 May 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a South African anti-[[apartheid]] activist and intellectual. She spent 117 days in jail in 1963 and was a member of the liberation struggle along with [[Nelson Mandela]] and [[Joe Slovo]]. In 1970, she published ''The Barrel of a Gun'', a study of coups throughout [[Africa]]. She noted that many African countries fell to military dictatorships after becoming independent. A South African death squad killed her in Mozambique in 1982.<ref name=":122222">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2008|title=The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World|chapter=La Paz|page=144–5|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzaceascnzh26r5d6uitjjs2z7rflhaxlt7rboz5whzdf76qg6xxvecqq?filename=%28A%20New%20Press%20People%27s%20history%29%20Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20The%20darker%20nations_%20a%20people%27s%20history%20of%20the%20third%20world-The%20New%20Press%20%282008%29.pdf|publisher=The New Press|isbn=9781595583420|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9B40B96E830128A7FE0E0E887C06829F}}</ref><br />
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