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“For freedom is not a commodity which is ‘given to the enslaved upon demand. It is a precious reward, the shining trophy of struggle and sacrifice. Nor do the struggle and sacrifice cease with the attainment of freedom.
— Kwame Nkrumah
First President of Ghana
Africa Must Unite (1963), Introduction, page xv
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