It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
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At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
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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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The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality…
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
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There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
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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 essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty.
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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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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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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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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
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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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As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa.
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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In communal society, where there are virtually no class divisions, man’s productive activities on outlook and culture is less discernible. Account must be taken of the psychology of conflicting classes.
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Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world.
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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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