Kwame Nkrumah

The greatest danger that faces Africa is the danger of Balkanization, the danger of being broken up into small, fragmented states.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. Her development is a mirror image of the development of the capitalist countries which still dominate her.

All peoples of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any other part of the world, are Africans and belong to the African nation.

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.

Practice without thought is blind; thought without practice is empty.

The evil of colonialism was that it sought to empty the African mind and replace it with the European mind.

The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

The only solution to the problem of neo-colonialism is a united Africa.

We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new Africa. Ours is a struggle for a continent and its people, who have been humiliated and degraded for centuries.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

The greatest weapon of the colonialist is the mind of the colonized.

Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation.

The best way to learn to be a master is to be a master.

The history of Africa is a history of resistance.

The problem of Africa is the problem of unity.

It is not the absence of the white man that frightens me, but the presence of the black man who thinks like the white man.

Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation.