Kwame Nkrumah Quotes


It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.


Citations

Nkrumah, Kwame. I Speak of Freedom: A Statement of African Ideology. Heinemann, 1961, p. xi.

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Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah
  • Born: September 21, 1909
  • Died: April 27, 1972
  • Nationality: Ghanaian
  • Profession: Statesman

Kwame Nkrumah PC was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1962.