Panafricanism Quotes

“If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.”
― Marcus Garvey

“We were in Africa". I know, I know. What were we doing there? We must have lived, somehow. Eaten, slept, raised children? Was it so savage and horrible that it is netter forgotten? Who can tell me? No one. Because nobody knows and everyone takes for granted what they've been told.”
― Maryse Condé, Heremakhonon

“The danger to world peace springs not from the action of those who seek to end neo-colonialism but from the inaction of those who allow it to continue. To argue that a third world war is not inevitable is one thing, to suppose that it can be avoided by shutting our eyes to the development of a situation likely to produce it is quite another matter.”
― Kwame Nkrumah, Neo Colonialism the Last Stage of Imperi

“The passage from the ancestral line of slavery via feudalism and capitalism to socialism can only lie through revolution: it cannot lie through reform. For in reform, fundamental principles are held constant, and the details of their expression are modified. In the words of Marx, it leaves the pillars of the building intact. Indeed sometimes, reform itself may be initiated by the necessities of preserving identical fundamental principles.
Reform is a tactic of self-preservation.”
― Kwame Nkrumah, Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonization and Development with Particular Reference to the African Development

“European colonialism was like an aggressive virus, striving on the weak African immune system. Africans must unite or perish!!!”
― Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian

“Having been too much inferior to caucasians, makes us to glorify yellow bones.”
― Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian

“Having been made so much inferior to caucasians makes us to glorify yellow bones”
― Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian

“All bones are white and our blood is red”
― Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian

“Afrikan Unity is Afrikan Progress; Afrika cannot move significantly forward without Afrikan unity.”
― Eze Chimere Nwauzo

“It doesn't matter how long an African stays in Europe, Europe will always be for Europeans".”
― Thabiso Daniel Monkoe, The Azanian

“The vast majority of South Africans, almost all of whom are black, almost always—if not always—attribute to Apartheid, the side effects of capitalism. (And that makes them very unlikely to question capitalism, let alone strive for its abandonment.)”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The fathers of the independence gave their lives by fighting for the human freedom not for the ethnics, so let us give them honour by respecting the human beings not just by repeating their slogans.”
― Bruce Mbanzabugabo, The Inspirer, Book of Quotes

“It is essential that socialism should include overriding regard tot the experience and the consciousness of a people, for if it does not do so, it will be serving an idea and not a people. It will generate a contradiction. It will become dogmatic. It will shed its materialist and realist basis. It will become fanaticism, an obscurantism, an alienator of human happiness.”
― Kwame Nkrumah, Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonization and Development with Particular Reference to the African Development

“When we talk of socialism in Africa, therefore, we really do intent to include as part of socialism an overriding regard to our actual material conditions, an overriding regard to our experience and our consciousness.”
― Kwame Nkrumah, Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonization and Development with Particular Reference to the African Development

“Transformative Pan-Africanism connects Africans worldwide to create a united Africa that fosters personal fulfillment and sustainable generational wealth.”
― DJ Bwakali

“If you take a seed, [...] and scatter it across the lands, some will end up in marshes, some in rich fertile lands with flowing streams, others in sand, and others among the mountains and rocks. If the seed is tough, it will adapt and survive in all conditions; if it is weak, it will perish. The same seed in one country may yield a baobab but in another an oak. Our race is a potent seed. Whether you are from Ghana or Guyana, you are born of the same seed and you will be of the same fruit. We must recognize our fruition in London, in Paris, in Dakar, in Harare, and in Maputo. Our roots are deep and wide. We must extend our hearts and minds, like bridges, over the swamps of racial injustice, to link us together.”
― Nozipo Maraire, Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter