We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. — Kwame Nkrumah · Skopia

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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

1967

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Self-determination Anti-colonialism

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Nkrumah, Kwame. Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah. Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1967.

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