The struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments.
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.
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Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialised if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented; if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.
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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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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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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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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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Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
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The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent.
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There is a close connection between socio-political development.
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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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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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Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
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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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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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