Kwame Nkrumah Quotes on Justice
Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian political philosopher and the first Prime Minister and President of independent Ghana. This page collects quotes attributed to Kwame Nkrumah on the topic of justice, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Kwame Nkrumah:
“Independence is meaningless without economic and political emancipation.”
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“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 mission, he claimed, was to "civilize" Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people.”
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“Just as in the days of the Egyptians , so today God had ordained that certain among the African race should journey westwards to equip themselves with knowledge and experience for the day when they would be called upon to return to their motherland and to use the learning they had acquired to help improve the lot of their brethren. ...I had not realized at the time that I would contribute so much towards the fulfillment of this prophecy.”
The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957). As quoted by George P. Hagan in Nkrumah's Leadership Style—An Assessment from a Cultural Perspective , in Arhin (1992), The Life and Work of 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 .”
Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonisation [2] , 1964