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Kwame Nkrumah

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
KWAME NKRUMAH

Country Ghana Independence Liberation Meaningless
Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Depth Height Judging Remember Started Success
It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Clear Country Found Must Problem Unity World
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.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Community Country Dominion Economy Entire Hold Nation People Potentially Recognize Territory Together
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Act Action Brought Men Revolution Think Thinking Thought
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.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Above Below Come Continue Country Earth Improvement Operate Predominantly Product
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.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Capitalism Colonialism End Imperialism Race World
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery .
KWAME NKRUMAH

Capitalism Development Feudalism Gentleman Retirement Slavery
But as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Directed Expense Friendship Good Greatesness Hope Mankind Power Suspension Trust
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
KWAME NKRUMAH

Anybody Beter Else Free Govern Misgoverm Yourself
Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Capitalism Gentlemen Method Slavery
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.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Abide Arise Egalitarianism Major Mean Principle Production Socialism Spontaneous
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.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Colonialism Essence Independent Outward Reality State Subject Theory Trapping
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
KWAME NKRUMAH

Anybody Better Else Far Govern Misgovern Yourself
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Apart Force Greater Influence Keep Superimpose Unite
In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
KWAME NKRUMAH

Direct Economic Outside Policy Political Reality System

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