Top 30 Kwame Nkrumah Quotes (2024 Update)

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”

1. “I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.”

2. “It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.”

3. “Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “We face neither East nor West: we face forward.”

4. “We face neither East nor West: we face forward.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “Africa is one continent, one people and one nation.”

5. “Africa is one continent, one people and one nation.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.”

6. “Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.”

7. “Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent.”

8. “The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!”

9. “We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.”

10. “We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else.”

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.”

12. “The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.”

13. “Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.”

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

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Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.”

15. “It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.”

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

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Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.”

17. “Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.”

18. “The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “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 and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people.”

19. “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 and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.”

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist.”

22. “The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist.”

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Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.”

23. “Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.”

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Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “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 sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.”

24. “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 sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.”

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Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “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 and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”

25. “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 and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”

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Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

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Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “For this end Africa needs a new type of citizen, a dedicated, modest, honest and informed man. A man submerges self in service to the nation and mankind. A man who abhors greed and detests vanity. A new type of man whose humility is his strength and whose integrity is his greatness.”

27. “For this end Africa needs a new type of citizen, a dedicated, modest, honest and informed man. A man submerges self in service to the nation and mankind. A man who abhors greed and detests vanity. A new type of man whose humility is his strength and whose integrity is his greatness.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.”

28. “The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.”

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “If by their fruits we shall know them, they must first grow the fruits.”

30. “If by their fruits we shall know them, they must first grow the fruits.”

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Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have said before, is no ordinary wind. It is a raging hurricane against which the old order cannot stand.”

31. “Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have said before, is no ordinary wind. It is a raging hurricane against which the old order cannot stand.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “If we are to achieve revolutionary Socialism, then we must avoid any suggestion that will imply that there is any separation between the Socialist world and a ‘Third World’.”

32. “If we are to achieve revolutionary Socialism, then we must avoid any suggestion that will imply that there is any separation between the Socialist world and a ‘Third World’.”

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Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described, in its social manifestation, as being socialist. This arises from the fact that man is regarded in Africa as primarily a spiritual being, a being endowed originally with a certain inward dignity, integrity, and value. It stands refreshingly opposed to the Christian idea of the original sin and degradation of man.”

33. “The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described, in its social manifestation, as being socialist. This arises from the fact that man is regarded in Africa as primarily a spiritual being, a being endowed originally with a certain inward dignity, integrity, and value. It stands refreshingly opposed to the Christian idea of the original sin and degradation of man.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah Quote: “Socialism in Africa today tends to lose its objective content in favor of a distracting terminology and in favor of a general confusion. Discussion centers more on the various conceivable types of socialism than upon the need for socialist development.”

34. “Socialism in Africa today tends to lose its objective content in favor of a distracting terminology and in favor of a general confusion. Discussion centers more on the various conceivable types of socialism than upon the need for socialist development.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

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