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dated December 27, 1958: Ghana’s role

Prime Minister Nehru told Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the Prime Minister of Ghana, at a banquet given in his honour in New Delhi on December 24 that his visit to India was doubly welcomed “both for the sake of Ghana and for the sake of Africa and the new movements and urges moving the minds and hearts of millions of people .” All these great forces could not be suppressed and they would find an outlet. “We can only hope that they will find that outlet in peace and friendship, for otherwise, it will be most unfortunate for all concerned”, he added. The Prime Minister of Ghana in reply said the forces at work in Africa had put Ghana into a place where it had “become more or less the springboard for the final liberation of the African Continent.” “The time has come”, he said, “when the freedom of one little territory on the Continent of Africa is not freedom unless that freedom is linked up with the freedom of all the territories in Africa which are under colonial regime.”

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