Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism .
KWAME NKRUMAH
KWAME NKRUMAH
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Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah 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.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah 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.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah 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.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah 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.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.
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Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah 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.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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