#HappyRepublicDay #BlackStarsShine "I made it quite clear that from now on-today-We must change our attitudes, our minds. We must realize that from now on, we are no more a colonial, but free and independent people. That new Africa is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all, the Black man is capable of managing his own affairs... If we lost touch with what our forefathers discovered and knew, this has been due to the system of education to which we were introduced. This system of education prepared us for a subservient role to Europe and things European. It was directed at estranging us from our own cultures in order the more effectively to serve a new and alien interest... Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights Neo-Colonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continues to enrich, not Africans predominately, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa's impoverishment... It has always been said that Africa is poor. What nonsense! It is not Africa that is poor. It is Africans, who are impoverished by centuries of exploitation and domination. We are today the richest and yet the poorest of continents, but in unity our continent could smile in a new era of prosperity and power... The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be and independent sovereign state... 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... The secret of life is to have no fear... We face neither east nor west - We face Forward- Forward Ever, Backward Never!" - Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah #Reclaim #Excellence #AGreaterGhana #OurBlackStarNation (at Accra, Ghana)