Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
KWAME NKRUMAHAfrica is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
KWAME NKRUMAHAll 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.
KWAME NKRUMAHThose who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
KWAME NKRUMAHCapitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery .
KWAME NKRUMAHThe 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.
KWAME NKRUMAHWe face neither East nor West: we face forward.
KWAME NKRUMAHFreedom 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.
KWAME NKRUMAHIt is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
KWAME NKRUMAHAt long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
KWAME NKRUMAHIt is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
KWAME NKRUMAHIn 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.
KWAME NKRUMAHI believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
KWAME NKRUMAHI am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe 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.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe 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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