It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
KWAME NKRUMAHThe 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…
More Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.
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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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The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world.
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Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
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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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I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
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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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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
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We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
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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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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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Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge.
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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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The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
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