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A black woman
Golden is her personal name
Guinea's Golden Lady
And christened by her God-fathers
But from birth
Ghana.

— J. B. Danquah

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To liberate the energies of the people for the growth of a property owning democracy in this land.

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I Conceive that the first act of the constitution-making body will be to make a clean break away from the memories of the old days of exploitation and imperialism.

Submission to the Watson Commission (1948)

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