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🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | I hope I'm not talking out a ton to my granny and crew, but I'll rate you if you don't |
0:26.8 | rate Kwame and Krumah, and Krumah was a man who believed in Africa and he was |
0:41.7 | way too driven to be a passenger. He led Ghana all the way to independence back in |
0:47.6 | early March 1957 and when it came to other freedom fighters he would check in. |
0:53.6 | He changed the stride his society would step in. African was the only side that he was |
0:58.6 | repiting, but he wasn't a gangster supplying people's weapons. His level of investment |
1:05.2 | in education and development, his evidence of his dedication. Freedom fighters from all over |
1:11.6 | the motherland came to Ghana all hoping to understand how to overcome the colonial upper hand, |
1:17.9 | how to recover land, so they linked up and planned and studied and trained against every |
1:22.7 | violent tendency of why it's supremacy. |
1:25.4 | Krumah wanted to build a United States of Africa. He didn't just say it though, |
1:49.6 | his actions back to up from conferences for leaders across the continent to a newspaper and |
1:55.7 | radio station pushing African consciousness. His government put in place free primary education, |
2:02.0 | they were making it happen, not just writing a legislation, all from a simple policy, |
2:08.6 | nobody's free, till everybody's free. And they knew the art of putting money where their |
2:14.7 | mouth is without trying to act like the one who wears the trousers. Like in 58, when France held |
2:20.4 | a referendum for his African colonies asking if they wanted to leave. Guinea said peace, leave |
2:26.0 | us alone, please. And France said cool, but it was going to be beef. Ghana got 26 million cent |
2:34.3 | to Guinea. On the world stage in Krumah was the continent's representative, really. |
3:04.3 | We must realize that from now on, we are no more colonial, better free and independent people. |
3:13.0 | Oh, please believe the CIA was lurking, why may must have been Africa's most famous person, |
3:35.3 | all sorts of people flooded into Ghana. And of course, some of bringing drama. |
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