Kwame Nkrumah: The People Of Africa Are Crying For Unity

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Libyan Revolutionary Committees Movement

'The People Of Africa Are Crying For Unity'


Kwame Nkrumah

Introduction
African Union has its roots in the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). It is thus fitting to look back in order to look forward. On 24 May 1963, as 32 independent African countries met in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to find ways to unite the continent, Ghana’s then president, Kwame Nkrumah, gave one of the greatest speeches of his life, a speech which has since become the definitive blueprint for a strong, but so far sadly elusive, African unity.

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