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* The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa. |
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** Quoted in A. E. Ekoko, Margaret A. Vogt, ''Nigerian defence policy: issues and problems'' (1990), p. 55 |
** Quoted in A. E. Ekoko, Margaret A. Vogt, ''Nigerian defence policy: issues and problems'' (1990), p. 55 |
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IF WE HAVE LOST TOUCH WITH WHAT OUR FOREFATHERRS DISCOVERED AND KNEW, THIS HAS BEEN DUE TO THE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION TO WHICH WE WERE INTRODUCED. THIS SYSTEM OF EDUCATION PREPARED US FOR A SUBSERVIENT ROLE TO EUROPE AND THINGS EUROPEAN. IT WAS DIRECTED AT ENSTRANGING US FROM OUR OWN CULTURE IN ORDER THE MORE EFFECTIVELY TO SERE A NEW AND ALIEN INTEREST |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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Revision as of 06:31, 4 March 2014
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Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was the leader of Ghana from 1951 to 1966.
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Quotes
- Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation. Hence the need for a socialistic society.
- The autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957), p. x
- We cannot tell our peoples that material benefits in growth and modern progress are not for them. If we do, they will throw us out and seek other leaders who promise more ... We have to modernize. Either we shall do so with the interest and support of the West or we shall be compelled to turn elsewhere. This is not a warning or a threat, but a straight statement of political reality.
- Quoted in Canadian Institute of International Affairs International journal, Volumes 13-14 (1957), p. 160
- Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery.
- Quoted in The Jewel of Africa, Vol. 1 (1968), p. 22
- The difference between myself and Castro is that I am not aligned and he is; I am a socialist and he is a communist.
- Quoted in Asiaweek, Vol. 5 (1979), p. 28
- The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa.
- Quoted in A. E. Ekoko, Margaret A. Vogt, Nigerian defence policy: issues and problems (1990), p. 55
IF WE HAVE LOST TOUCH WITH WHAT OUR FOREFATHERRS DISCOVERED AND KNEW, THIS HAS BEEN DUE TO THE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION TO WHICH WE WERE INTRODUCED. THIS SYSTEM OF EDUCATION PREPARED US FOR A SUBSERVIENT ROLE TO EUROPE AND THINGS EUROPEAN. IT WAS DIRECTED AT ENSTRANGING US FROM OUR OWN CULTURE IN ORDER THE MORE EFFECTIVELY TO SERE A NEW AND ALIEN INTEREST (KWAME NKRUMAH)
