Occupation: Former President For Life Birth: September 21, 1909 Death: April 27, 1972
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries t….
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….
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..
The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international….
The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupt….
For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his….
Africa is one continent, one people and one nation.
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent.
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought..
There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intel….
We face neither East nor West: we face forward..
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist.
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state..
Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distributio….
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility..
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound….
Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and raci….
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else.
I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me..
As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead ….
Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind..