Kwame Nkrumah Quotes

Ghana, Statesman
September 21, 1909 – April, 27, 1972.

Kwame Nkrumah PC (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He was the first prime minister and president of Ghana, having led it to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.

Also known as Politician

Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation. Hence the need for a socialistic society.

Kwame Nkrumah
- Society
- Independent
The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa.

Kwame Nkrumah

The critical study of the philosophies of the past should lead to the study of modern theories. For these latter, born of the fire of contemporary struggles, are militant and alive.

Kwame Nkrumah
- Past
- Study
- Fire
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Kwame Nkrumah
- Men
- Action
We in Ghana, are committed to the building of an industrialized socialist society. We cannot afford to sit still and be mere passive onlookers. We must ourselves take part in the pursuit of scientific and technological research as a means of providing the basis for our socialist society, Socialism without science is void. …

Kwame Nkrumah
- Society
- Science
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Kwame Nkrumah
Power

Kwame Nkrumah
- Power
We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

Kwame Nkrumah

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Kwame Nkrumah
- World
- Peace
- Serious
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Kwame Nkrumah
- People
- Freedom
To the true African journalist, his newspaper is a collective organizer, a collective instrument of mobilization and a collective educator-a weapon, first and foremost, to overthrow colonialism and imperialism and to assist total African independence and unity.

Kwame Nkrumah
- True
- Unity
The difference between myself and Castro is that I am not aligned and he is; I am a socialist and he is a communist.

Kwame Nkrumah
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Kwame Nkrumah
- Learning
- Independent
Politics

Kwame Nkrumah

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.

Kwame Nkrumah
- Slavery
- Gentleman