Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
Nkrumah, Kwame. Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1957.
Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym.
He was a poor governor in general and was fired and replaced by the Dutch East India Company which was a happy occurrence for the colonists. The company was a money making institution and depended on colonists who would farm, trade and manufacture. If they were unhappy, the company would not profit. They would not have minded a tyrant if he could produce profits as some did in the Dutch East Indies, but Kieft was a loser on all counts.
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.
