Robert Sobukwe

“Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade and become, with us, the leaves of the same branch and the branches of the same tree”

Robert Sobukwe

““The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will not retreat! Africa will not compromise! Africa will not relent! Africa will not equivocate! And she will be heard! Remember Africa!””

Onkgopotse Tiro

“It is better to die for an idea that will live than to live for an idea that will die”

Kwame Nkrumah

The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist

Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi

“I am not going to leave this land. I will die as a martyr at the end”

Booker T Washington

“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”

James Baldwin

“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions”

Kwame Nkrumah

“Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation”

Robert Sobukwe

“The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle”

Robert Sobukwe

“We must, therefore, appreciate our role. We must appreciate our responsibility. The African people have entrusted their whole future to us. And we have sworn that we are leading them, not to death, but to life abundant.”