The death of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana, demonstrated a
great irony: a man so much maligned and rejected in life, should be so
praised and loved in death. The force of his personality, his
convictions in the face of powerful opposition, and his vision for Ghana
and a pan-Africa, are evident in his speeches. The forty-seven speeches
in this first of five volumes are arranged chronologically, and were all
made in the year 1960.