At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved
country is free forever!
Also, I want to thank the valiant ex-service men who have so cooperated
with me in this mighty task of freeing our country from foreign rule and
imperialism.
As I said to the Assembly a few minutes ago, I made a point that we are
going t create our own Africa personality and identity. It is the only
way we can show the world that we are ready for our own battles.
But today, may I call upon you all, that on this grer that at day let us
all remember that nothing can be done unless it has the purport and support of
God.
We have won the battle and again rededicate ourselves … OUR INDEPENDENCE
IS MEANINGLESS UNLESS IT IS LINKED UP WITH THE TOTAL LIBERATION OF AFRICA.
Let us now, fellow Ghanaians, let us now ask for God’s blessing for only
two seconds, and in your thousands and millions.
Ghana is free forever! And here I will ask the band to play the
Ghana National Anthem.
Reshaping Ghana’s destiney, I am depending on the millions of the
country, and the chiefs and the people, to help me to reshape the destiny of
this country. We are prepared to pick it up and make it a nation that
will be respected by every nation in the world.
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Ghana Independence Day
Speech
By Dr Kwame Nkrumah
March 6, 1957
And yet again, I want to take the opportunity to thank the people fo
this country; the youth, the farmers, the women who have so nobly fought and
won the battle.
But also, as I pointed out, that also entails hard work. That new
Africa is ready to figt his own battles and show that after all the black man
is capable of managing his own affairs.
We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, hat we
are prepared to lay our foundation – our own African personality.
I want to ask you to pause for only one minute and give thanks to
Almighty God for having led us through our difficulties, imprisonments,
hardships and sufferings, to have brought us to our end of troubles today. One
minute silence.
We know were going to have difficult beginnings, but again, I am relying
n your support…. I am relying upon your hard work.
Seeing you in this… It doesn’t matter how far my eyes go, I can
see that you are here in your millions. And my last warning to you is
that you are to stand firm behind us so that we can prove to the world that wen
the African is given a chance, he can show the world that he is somebody!
We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now one,
there is a new African in the world!
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