Kwame Nkrumah Speech that Predicted the Current African Awakening
Speech · Anti-Colonialism & National Liberation · 06:54
Kwame Nkrumah
Summary
This recording features a speech by Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana and a leading Pan-Africanist. Addressing fellow freedom fighters, Nkrumah warns against the neocolonial threat posed by the European Common Market, which he argues aims to keep Africa as a supplier of cheap raw materials and prevent independent policies. He advocates for African unity as the only effective defense against imperialist domination, calling for a joint African military command and continental economic integration. He emphasizes the necessity of collective self-reliance and solidarity to achieve genuine independence and liberation for Africa.
Transcript (diarized)
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great African Leadership Series where we feature great inspirational speeches and quotes from African leaders.
Kwame Nkrumah: Fellow freedom fighters, comrades and friends, long live African freedom fighters. Long live African independence. Long live your struggle. And long live African unity. Here is a phenomenon against which all African freedom fighters must be on their guard and resist to the utmost. Kwa sababu kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya Kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, that the common market is aimed at harnessing the African countries to satisfy the profit loss of the imperialist bloc and to prevent us from following an independent neutralist policy. It is easy to see. that the imperialists and the colonialists are determined to retain the African countries in the position of suppliers of cheap raw materials. If we do not resist this threat, and if we throw in our lot with the common market, we shall doom the economy of Africa to a state of perpetual subjection to the economy of Western Europe. Kwa hivyo, hivyo, hivyo, hivyo, hivyo, hivyo, Kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, which operating on a continental scale can make a solid attack on the imperialist domination in Africa. We should, without delay, aim at the creation of a joint African military command. There is little wisdom in our present separate effort to build up and maintain defense forces, which in any case would be ineffective in a major world conflict. if we examine this problem realistically you would ask which single African state could protect itself against an imperialist aggressor and how much more difficult this would be when some states are allowing the imperialists to maintain bases on their territories I have already referred to the military forces Kwa hivyo kwa Afrika Mungu. Kwa hivyo kwa afrika mungu. Kwa hivyo kwa afrika mungu. Kwa hivyo kwa afrika mungu. Kwa hivyo kwa afrika mungu. Kwa hivyo, inaweza kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya kufanya Kwa hivyo, asociatia ya kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa na kufuwa. have proved the efficacy of unions and prisons like structures of land and population. Long live African Freedom Fighters. Long live African Independence. Long live your struggle. And long live African unity.