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…
KWAME NKRUMAHA 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.
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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The courage to work, the courage to achieve – to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life?
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The struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments.
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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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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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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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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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Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.
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In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
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The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same.
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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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