Kwame Nkrumah an activist, revolutionalist and politician led the Gold Coast (Ghana) to independence from Britain in 1957, became the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah had a vision of a United  State of Africa which he advocated for and worked hard at achieving till his death. What are the forces that sabotaged the achievement of this vision, and why?

Kwame Nkrumah / Quotes

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

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.

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

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.

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