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b. 1960 Ghana
Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah (born 23 June 1960) is a Ghanaian politician and chairperson of the Convention People's Party (CPP). In the 2008 parliamentary election, she won the Jomoro constituency seat at her first attempt.
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“We have the resources, both human and material, to lift our continent up.”
“We need to work hard to make conditions better for our people.”
“We needed help from wherever we can get it, but we have to start by doing things for ourselves first.”
“I was too shy, helpless, and intimidated to even be able to defend our father to my teacher.”
“For the African to prosper, for our economic survival, we must put our heads together and build our nations together.”
“As our forebears dreamt of a united Africa, we must now make it a reality.”
“We need a system where we have full ownership of our resources.”
“My father believed that Africa does not have a problem that Africans cannot solve.”
There are so many things we could do easier and cheaper, including even borrowing, if we collaborate.
I think the solution to our economic wars and challenges as individual African countries is to take this very seriously.
“When we returned in 1975 to pursue our education at the invitation of the Acheampong regime, they said they would honour our father.”
“It was then that I heard negative comments about our father for the first time.”
I wonder why we didn't think about five or six regional markets rather than one. I know the answer .
For me, the greatest problem we have as a country and continent is we are not able to marshal the best minds or skills in Ghana and Africa because of multiparty politics.
“So we have to change our model.”
father died while their mother was still young was another painful sacrifice they had to endure while growing up.
“Ghana cannot go it alone.”
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