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.
— Kwame Nkrumah Modern

First president of Ghana

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Speech in Accra

Date / Period

1957

Category

Strange & Unusual

Source

https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/nkrumah/1957/independence-speech.htm

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