African Unity Quotes
The Negro World, Garvey’s Newspaper, was the country’s largest Black newspaper. The statement brought great distress to white Europe whose colonial interests were threatened.
“Africa” then meant Northern Africa or what we today call the Middle East. Even in the 4th century it was a hotbed of internecine religious strife. He was not the first to try and cope with the religious strife of Palestine and the rest of the Middle East, and he was certainly not the last.
Nkrumah was one of the great African democrats. Like George Washington, he voluntarily relinquished his Presidency when most would have had him as a “President for Life,” or even a king. His greater vision was one of pan-Africanism. In the defense arena he didn’t realize that the major purposes of most African military was to maintain the existing regime in power unlike his own example. He further assumed that military threats would come from outside the continent as they historically had. However, virtually all the conflict in Africa has been between contending groups within a country and nearby countries taking sides and thus being drawn into the conflict.
He was an Army Major at the time he wrote this article. In 1966 his positive view of Britain was overwhelmed by the anti-colonial fervor that existed in much of Africa.
