Creative Quotations from . . .
Kwame Nkrumah
(1909-1972) born on
Sep 09
Ghanian political leader. He was the communist/premier of the Gold Coast who later became, at indepedence, the first president of Ghana, 1960-66.
         
   
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F
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

R
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
A
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
N
We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
K
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.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: Speech, 18 May 1956, to Legislative Assembly, Accra.
R: Consciencism, ch. 2 (1964).
A: Quoted in: Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah (1967), motto of the Accra Evening News, founded 1948.
N: Conference speech, 7 April 1960, Accra.
K: Consciencism, ch. 4 (1964).
 

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