I owe Andrew Mtagwaba Kailembo, who has died at the age of 92, a debt of gratitude. News of Andrew’s death on 6 March 2026 took me back to early 1990, when I got my first permanent and pensionable job with the Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), as it was then known. The entry-level position had been advertised in the Belgian French-language daily Le Soir, and, out of college and in want of a job, I had appli…
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