Kwame Nkrumah : “I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me”

“No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.” - Nnamdi Azikiwe

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe : “The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will not retreat! Africa will not compromise! Africa will not relent! Africa will not equivocate! And she will be heard! Remember Africa!”

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois : I believe in pride of race and lineage and self; in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

Haile Selassie I - Former Emperor of Ethiopia : “This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues, and faults.”

“The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness” - Marcus Garvey

“Pan-Africanism looks above the narrow confines of class, race, tribe, and religion. It embraces the amalgamation of self-governing countries into a United States of Africa.” - George Padmore

Patrice Lumumba : “The day will come when history will speak. But it will not be the history which will be taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations... Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity”

Walter Rodney : “After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests”

C.L.R James : “Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.”

Colin Legum : Well-known South African author, journalist, and writer who focused on African politics for the majority of the twentieth century.

“Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future” - Jomo Kenyatta

Frantz Fanon : “I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.”

Molefi Asante : “As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment”

Félix Houphouët-Boigny : “Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. Let us keep our dear countries free from irreversible mistakes which would lead us in the future to long for those same birds and trees.”

Thabo Mbeki : “Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.”

Nelson Mandela : “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived; it is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead”

Modibo Keita : “If all of us here present are truly animated by the ardent desire to achieve African unity, we must take Africa as it is, and we must renounce any territorial claims, if we do not wish to introduce what we might call black imperialism in Africa.”

Malcolm X : “A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.”