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AFRICA MUST UNITEKwame Nkrumah

Over twenty-five years ago, KwameNkrumah left the Gold Coast for theUnited States to complete his education,inspired by the great Aggrey, by thewritings of Garvey and Dubois, and byhis ambitions for himself and hiscountry. Later, as a student and teacherat Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, hethought deeply of the needs of his race.

In London, he began to put his thoughtsinto political action: ideas for the unity

of a great race became particularized inpractice in terms first of a united con-

tinent, Africa, and, finally and effec-tively, of a united and independentcountry, Ghana.

In the struggling years before Inde-

pendence and, later, in the years im-mediately following his great triumph,

Ghana's own problems and needs occu-pied him completely. However, he neverlost sight of his ideal of African unity

and, recently, he has turned more andmore to practical means of achieving

this.

Since his student days, Africa has vastly

changed. The best-known changes arepolitical, though the old boundarieslargely remain. To cross them and pene-trate the strong and proud new national-isms within, Africa needs telephone

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AFRICA MUST UNITE

Africa Must Unite

KWAME NKRUMAH

FREDERICK A. PRAEGER, Publisher

New York

BOOKS THAT MATTERPublished in the United States of America in 1963

by Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., Publisher64 University Place, New York 3, N.Y.

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(g) Kwame Nkrumah 1963

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-18462

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