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“'Seek ye first the political kingdom' became the principal slogan of the Convention People's Party, for without political independence none of our plans for social and economic development could be put into effect.”

Source: Africa Must Unite (1963), chapter 'Freedom First', p. 50

Context Recalling the slogan he adapted from Matthew 6:33 in 1949, when he founded the Convention People's Party to demand self-government for the Gold Coast.

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Kwame NkrumahGhana · 1909–1972
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