It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else.
" Kwame Nkrumah", Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council/P.C. was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast (British colony)/Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966. He became the first Prime Minister of the Gold Coast in 1951, and led it to independence as Ghana in 1957, becoming the new country's Prime Minister of Ghana/first Prime Minister. After Ghana became a republic in 1960, Nkrumah became President of Ghana/President. An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963. He saw himself as an African Vladimir Lenin/Lenin.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous statesmen! More Kwame Nkrumah on Wikipedia.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.
We face neither East nor West ; we face Forward.
Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. 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.
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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.
Its concern was based on the fact that such disputes continued to retard development and progress, resulting in increased poverty among the people.
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