Kwame Nkrumah Centenary Speeches
 
   
1 Independence Day Speech - Kwame Nkrumah
   
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“Certainly, people who make this argument have never studied history. Historic lessons teach us that in the events that have happened in the world while several people are involved in bringing the event about, it often takes one individual to bring the different efforts together into an explosive climax to achieve the objective the collective have been struggling for. Such an individual was Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.”
 
 
 
 
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1 Welcome Message by Akilagpa Sawyerr (Chairman of the Centenary) at University of Cape Coast
2 Welcome Message by Akilagpa Sawyerr (Chairman of the Centenary) at Ho
3 Grand Pageant and Durbar of Ghanaian and African Peoples
   
Topic: building a nation from the ashes – Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana
‘We have now become exporters of employment and importers of unemployment. We have failed to diversify our agriculture, our workers brigade Yamutu…….to once a booming Ghana?”

Topic: the struggles and injustices of Africa; a dawn of new leadership under Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
“reparation to Africa cannot be treated lightly because the consequences of the delay especially in the face of Africa struggling to catch with the rest of the world in development terms may become too unbearable for a free world.”
1 Building a Nation from the Ashes-Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana
   
It would be pertinent to point out one of the most overt synergies which Dr Kwame Nkrumah sought to make between ideology and education and which perhaps distinguishes the era during which he led the government from any other era. He was at pains to steer the political process away from one driven by the exigencies of the moment to one based on a reasoned ideology. He was also of the conviction that the ideals to which a country aspires and the strategies for achieving them would have to be learned specifically because it could not be assumed that they would automatically be imbibed.
1 Education for Leadership: The vision of Kwame Nkrumah
   
My sisters and brothers, today we have lots of intellectuals, professionals from the northern part of this country at the various sectors of the economy contributing meaningfully to the socio-economic development of the country. This is indeed a vindication of Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for the north.
 
Coming from the Nkrumaist tradition, we believe that education does not go to the highest bidder, rather it is a right, a democratic right. Democracy is not only concerned with multi-party elections, but it is gender equality, civil rights, and social justice. Education is a democratic right to be readily given from primary to university or tertiary level. There should be no compromise on this principle.
1 Education and Development: the Importance of Primary and Secondary Education - Revisiting Nkrumah’s Vision
   
Adam Gamel Nasser
On Ghana’s Day of Shame
“Why will a powerful country such as the United States be as obsessed with developments in such a small country as Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah”
 
“This foreign depredation of Africa is not new. First was the genocidal brutality of the trans Atlantic Slave Trade which was inflicted on Africa and which continued for four hundred years, depriving the continent of the most productive and active segments of the population and disrupting the productive activities on the continent. Conversely European and America slave traders accumulated enormous super profits from the exploitation of trade labor in the production of tobacco, cotton, sugar and coffee in Central, South and North America”
1 Kwame Nkrumah Centenary Celebration
2 Ghana’s day of Shame - Public Forum organised by Socialist Forum of Ghana
   
Dr. Raymond N. Osei
Nkrumah mooted the idea of African Economic and Political Union some 50 years ago. Since then, there has emerged similar regional economic power blocs world wide; the most significant of which is the European Common Market and emerging Political Union. The very states that accused Nkrumah of suffering the symptoms of megalomania, the ambition to become the President of the United States of Africa, have since realised that their petty kingdoms were no longer viable entities. They have put behind them the petty tribalist squabbles, and are working vigorously towards a solid economic union of all European states. For the message has dawned on them that it is only through economic and political union that they can recapture their status as dominant player in world affairs and thereby consolidate their independence.
 
Since the neo-colonialist economic system bequeathed to us by Britain, France and other European states have not delivered on the material and social well-being of the African peoples, African leaders should be urged to abandon this system and rather pursue vigorously the integration of the African markets. Therein lies salvation for the continent.
1 Revisiting Nkrumah’s Political Agenda
   
Dr. Edward N. Gyader
He suggested that within a year of the new constitution coming into force the Government should outline a ten year development plan for the Northern Territories and allocate special annual grants to the Region during the period. The Achimota Conference which considered these proposals confirmed that it was necessary to accord special consideration to development in the protectorate but rejected the formulation of a ten year development plan. Instead it recommended that “Government should undertake a yearly review of the progress achieved in development in the northern territories and that whilst special deficiencies last, they should receive special consideration in each yearly allocation under the development plan.
1 Bridging the gap between the south and the North of Ghana in Development the Nkrumah vision
Dr. Hamet M. Maulana
“So, why, today, should Africa governments and the UN-High Commission for refugees feel so surprised and shocked about ‘African Intellectual Flight’ from the African continent to Europe and America? Also why should these same institutions feel so shocked about African youth ‘walking across the Sahara Desert’, and braving the dangerous shark infested waters of the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean in wooden canoes, hoping to land somewhere in western Europe to seek a better life for themselves?”
1 Rallying theme: “Proper Knowledge Is Power!” “Sankofa – Go Back to your Roots!”
Dr. Sulley Gariba
Yes, today, it is very gratifying to know that while America (USA) and European Nations educational and news media institutions are now teaching and propagating the truth to their people that all humanity comes “Out of Africa”. However, on the other hand, it is very sad to know that throughout Black Africa, today, the old Colonial European Missionary Educational Curriculum and Syllabus designed for Africans is still being used as the bench mark for quality education.
1 Rallying theme: “Proper Knowledge Is Power!” “Sankofa – Go Back to your Roots!”
Yao Graham
Great clamour from variety of sources for more roles and powers for chiefs in the name of tradition, culture, wisdom etc. direction in which chieftaincy should evolve must start from situation discussion within log of constitution as fundamental law of a democratic republic and what this implies.
1 50 Years on: What does it mean to be a Republic?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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