For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
KWAME NKRUMAHGhana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world.
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We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.
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No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states.
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A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
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Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
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Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.
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We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
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The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.
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the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage, the African race, united under one federal government, will emerge not as just another world bloc to flaunt its wealth and strength.
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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
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The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
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