All we need to do is to develop with our united strength the enormous resources of our continent. What use to the farmer is education and mechanisation, what use is even capital for development, unless we can ensure for him a fair price and a ready market? What has the peasant, worker and farmer gained from political independence unless we can ensure for him a fair return for his labour and a higher standard of living? Unless we can establish great industrial complexes in Africa, what have the urban worker, and those peasants on overcrowded land gained from political independence? If they are to remain unemployed or in unskilled occupation, what will avail them the better facilities for education, technical training, energy and ambition which independence enables us to provide? Speech delivered by the first president of Ghana Dr. Kwame Nkrumah at the O.A.U meeting in Addis Ababa in 1963.
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