A Quote by Kwame Nkrumah

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.

Kwame Nkrumah

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Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian - Statesman
September 21, 1909 - April 27, 1972

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