I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
KWAME NKRUMAHHer 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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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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Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
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Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
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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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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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It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to “civilize” Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people.
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All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.
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A challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight.
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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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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