The early years Dawn of a new era Kwame Nkrumah, first president of Ghana, 23 September 1960, at the UN General Assembly in New York. One cardinal fact of our time is the momentous impact of Africas awakening upon the modern world. The flowing tide of African nationalism sweeps everything before it and constitutes a challenge to the colonial powers to make a just restitution for the years of injustice and crime committed against our continent…. For years, Africa has been the foot-stool of colonialism and imperialism, exploitation and degradation. From the north to the south, from the east to the west, her sons languished in the chains of slavery and humiliation, and Africas exploiters and self-appointed controllers of her destiny strode across our land with incredible inhumanity without mercy, without shame, and without honour. Those days are gone and gone forever, and now I, an African, stand before this august Assembly of the United Nations and speak with a voice of peace and freedom, proclaiming to the world the dawn of a new era…. I look upon the United Nations as the only organization that holds out any hope for the future of mankind…. The United Nations must therefore face up to its responsibilities, and ask those who would bury their heads like the proverbial ostrich in their imperialist sands, to pull their heads out and look at the blazing African sun now travelling across the sky of Africas redemption. The United Nations must call upon all nations that have colonies in Africa to grant complete independence to the territories still under their control…. This is a new day in Africa and as I speak now, thirteen new African nations have taken their seats this year in this august Assembly as independent sovereign states…. There are now twenty-two of us in this Assembly and there are yet more to come.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 07:23:14 +0000
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